Word: givings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor J. M. Peirce will give course 23 on the special development of the calculus of quaternions...
...Glee Club will give a concert tonight at the Puritan Club in Boston...
...Peabody Museum, a large quarto publication. It will contain a general account of the several explorations with descriptions of the prominent monoliths and sculptures and a number of illustrations. These illustrations, some of which are in the text, and others in the form of halftone reproductions from photographs, give a very clear idea of the ruins of this prehistoric city; and to most persons they will be a revelation of the remarkable architecture and sculpture of this ancient people of Central America. Several of the huge monoliths or idols, as they are generally called, with their respective altars, are shown...
...which have been cleared in the process of exploration so that their structure is in part understood; but a great amount of work is still to be done before all the structures of this ancient city are known. The ruins extend for several miles along the Copan river and give evidence that this region once sustained a numerous population...
...report of the Museum explorations is compiled from the field notes of John G. Owens, Marshall H. Saville and George Byron Gordon, who at different times have been in charge of the explorations. In this first number the object is simply to give a general account of the ruins, the plan being to publish a series of memoirs on special topics relating to them...