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PAUL DAY, Ch.THE men who have expressed their intention of going on the excursion to the Deer Island penal institution this afternoon, must be in the Square at 12.30, sharp, as those who are there then will start promptly. There is room for about five more men who may wish to go on the trip, the object of which is to examine carefully the Boston system of caring for criminals and paupers. The party will be taken down the harbor in the government boat and will return to Cambridge before...
November 9. Saturday.Geological Excursion to Rhode Island. Professor Davis...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Great Barrier Reef of Northeast Australia (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. J. B. Woodworth; The Excursion to Rhode Island, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...Saturday.Geological Excursion to Rhode Island. Professor Davis...
Excursion 6.- Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow...