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...Phillips Finlay '31 of Redlands...
Haddon entered the Edinburgh Academy in 1916 at the age of 12 to prepare for Edinburgh University. Sir Walter Scott was one of the founders of the Academy, and Robert Louis Stevenson studied there, as well as Sir James Clerk-Maxwell, Andrew Lang, Lord Haldane, and Lord Finlay, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Haddon played Rugby football while at the Academy, won several class and special prizes, and in his last year was head of his house. In 1922 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree, which he received...
...dropped anchor at Charleston, S. C., after an absence of 31 months. She had fished in the Sargasso Sea; dredged for "the lost continent, Atlantis," in the eastern Atlantic; touched on the South American and African coasts for repairs and to collect plant and animal life. Her commander, George Finlay Simmons, set about discharging his cargo of 12,000 specimens under the direction of Paul M. Rea, Cleveland museum chief. Braving superstition, the Blossom's men had shot an albatross, hooked a golden dolphin...
...Larkin, Princeton 76 9 1 1879--F. Larkin, Princeton 87 1 1 1882--D. R. Porter, Columbia 87 2 1/2 3 1883--C. H. Kip, Harvard 88 11 1 1886--A. B. Coxe, Yale 95 11 3 1887--A. B. Coxe, Yale 98 6 1 1891--J. R. Finlay, Harvard 107 7 1-2 4 1893--W. O. Hickok, Yale 110 4 1-2 2 1894--W. O. Hickok, Yale 123 9 1 1895--W. O. Hickok, Yale 135 7 1-2 1 1897--W.G. Woodruff, Penn 136 3 2 1898--J. C.McCracken, Penn 149 5 1900--A. Plaw, California...
...accomplishments has found records of former Arctic explorers, including the lining of a cap left by Elisha Kent Kane in 1853, and a record reading "All Well." He was the first to reach and explore the northern, eastern, and southern shores of North Cornwall and the first to reach Finlay Land, seen some sixty years ago by the Franklin Search Expedition. The trip upon which he will embark in June will be for the purpose of investigating southwestern Greenland, a land about which mystery clings even now. About 1000 A.D. this section of Greenland was inhabited by some...