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Geological Conference. Papers: Drainage of the Southern Appalachian Valley. Mr. C. H. White.- The Alfred Terra Cotta Clay. Mr. L. La Forge.- Eskers and Drumlins. Mr. H. T. Burr. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...received several very impor tant additions to its collections, especially to the collections of pottery. One of the largest of these groups is the Gordon collection of pottery from the banks of the Ulua River in Honduras. This comprises broken bits of colored pottery, stone idols and terra cotta whistles in the shape of animals, all of which were found in the banks of the Ulua River at a depth varying from four to forty feet...
brick, with terra cotta trimmings. In architectural features it corresponds closely to Winchester Hall, next which it stands. The so-called "mill construction" is used as a precaution against fire...
...semi-circular part of the building has a single story reaching above the rest of the building. It will be used for a lecture room and will seat more than five hundred people. The structure will be absolutely fireproof. The partition walls are of brick and of hollow terra cotta tiles, while the columns, girders, and trusses are of iron, the columns surrounded by terra cotta tiles...
...excavations made. Just outside the town of Eretria the party came upon great blocks of marble. Within these were layers of stone which being dug out revealed bodies. On these were wreaths of gold and rings. Within some of these graves there were also diadems and +++terra cotta images. On one of these graves only was there any inscription. After this the party came upon a theatre and found some very interesting developments. They noted some very strange things about this theatre; it contained two vaulted passages and an underground passage from the middle of the orchestra to the stage...