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...Alexander Agassiz has recently returned to Cambridge from an expedition to the Fiji Islands, where he has been studying coral reef formation for several months. The trip was successful in every way and Mr. Agassiz is to give the results of his studies in a public lecture in Cambridge on Thursday evening, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Agassiz on Coral Reef Formation. | 3/10/1898 | See Source »

Last Saturday, Mr. Agassiz, Dr. Woodworth and Dr. Mayer set out on a research trip to the Fiji Islands to study the coral reefs in that neighborhood. It is expected that they will remain there throughout the winter. During Dr. Woodworth's absence, Dr. Castle will take his courses at the Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/12/1897 | See Source »

...thought to change in the spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter the spirit life in full possession of her bodily faculties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Carpenter's Lecture. | 10/19/1894 | See Source »

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