Word: data
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author, who is an authority on all subjects relating to our far west, is himself deeply interested in the land and writes from the point of view of a lover rather than of a casual observer of the region. The last part of the book is devoted to historical data about Alaska, a summary of the necessary articles of food and clothing for the traveller and gold-seeker, and a very complete bibliography of the subject...
...month the work for the most part will consist in club swinging, body building movements, mat work, and heavy gymnastics. In the near future Dr. Anderson will give to each member of the class a short printed list of questions which each man will be required to answer. The data will be valuable in assisting the gymnasium directors in planning the work of physical training for future classes...
Professor Carr brings back many photographs, insect collections, plants and geological data, as well as a collection of marine invertebrate animals. Professor Gill made a study of the Mingsyah peninsula, with excellent results. Professor Carr concludes that the American and Queenland ice-caps are not one and the same, but always have been separate, and that the center of Greenland is highlands...
...discovered a comet in the constellation Virgo. The comet has increased steadily in brightness being now of about the fourth magnitude. Being below the equator and travelling southward, it is rather unfavorably situated for observation. No observations have as yet been taken at the Observatory, but from the data at hand, it may be said, speaking roughly, that the comet can be seen a little before sunrise in the constellation Libra, several degrees northwest of the bright reddish star Autares in Scorpio. A photograph taken at the Lick observatory December 8, by A. L. Colton, shows the tail...
...McGregor is modeling it from data received from Mr. Primrose and numerous other students of the ancient Greek architecture. He expects to have it finished in about a month...