Word: diego
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...investigating party first explored the chalk bluffs of the San Diego River, Texas, where they found mammoth tusks and bones together with flints and axes. They had no proof, however, that man and the mammoth were here contemporaneous, because in many places remains of the Indians are found mingled with the traces of an earlier age. In these instances, investigation has shown that the confusion was caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found...
...Next he visited Bryn Mawr College, Washington University, of St. Louis, Denver, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Leaving Colorado he went directly to California. He spent about two weeks in San Francisco and around San Francisco Bay. Thence he went to Southern California, visiting Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Redlands, and San Bernadino. At San Bernadino he saw the superintendent of schools, Alex. E. Fry, whose writings upon the teaching of geography are widely known. He then visited Mt. Wilson where Harvard once had an observatory. Afterwards he visited Lick Observatory and saw the fine equipment of Professor...