Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Quinquennial Catalogue of Harvard University for 1900 may now be obtained of any of the following booksellers, Charles W. Sever, Cambridge; Harvard Co-operative Society, Cambridge; Damrell & Upham, Boston; Li tle, Brown & Co., Boston; Dyrsen & Pfeiffer, New York; A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago; Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco; or will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price by the Publication Agent of Harvard University, 2 University Hal. Cambridge, Mass.,--cloth, $2 ($2.20 postpaid); paper, $1.50 ($1.65 postpaid.) The Catalogue gives the ames of the officers of government and instruction, with their periods of service; also the names of the graduates...
...Yale to go West this summer. About twelve Yale instructors and students will take part in the expedition, which will leave late in August. The party will make the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona the main object of the trip, but will also visit the San Francisco mountains and the petrified forests of Arizona. Another Yale party is already on its way to the Canyon. The object of the expedition is mainly to study the geology of the Arizona regions and also to hunt for fossil remains...
...Agassiz left San Francisco on August 23 last, in the "Albatross," which had been loaned him by the government for the purpose of investigation. When about three hundred miles off Point Conception, he began to make soundings; and, of these, he made seventy-two before reaching Tahiti. By means of the soundings, the depths of the unexplored parts of the Pacific were ascertained and the basins located. Mr. Agassiz suggested in his letter that the deepest and largest of these basins, found in the Central Pacific, be named the "Moser Basin...