Word: lumholtz
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...most interesting lectures delivered in Cambridge this year was that given last night under the auspices of the Natural History society of Harvard, by Professor Carl Lumholtz, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, of Christiana. Although but a short notice of the lecture could be given, the large lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory was completely filled by an audience which followed with the greatest interest the fascinating recital of the remarkable experiences of Professor Lumholtz among the cannibal aborigines of Australia. The lecture was unusually long, but the attention of the audience was held throughout. The interest...
What Professor Lumholtz had to say of the natives themselves was, however, the most instructive part of the talk. He is the only European who has ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown...
...attention of all members 05 the University to the lecture to be given this evening by Professor Lumboltz, of the Academy of Sciences of Norway. Owing to circumstances over which the Natural History Society had no control, an earlier notice of the lecture could not be given. Professor Lumholtz lectures here at the invitation of President Eliot and Professor Shaler, and it is earnestly hoped that he may have a large audience...
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