Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Several researches have been conducted aside from those in Central America. Dr. Charles Peabody explored some large mounds in Mississippi and made a large collection of stone implements, pottery, and other objects. Professor Putnam continued his researches in California in relation to the antiquity of man and collected a number of archaeological specimens. Other minor researches have also been made...
...interesting collection of relics and skeletons from the mounds of southern Mississippi has recently been unpacked in the Peabody Museum. The collection was made by Dr. Charles Peabody and Mr. W. C. Farrabee, who spent last May and June excavating mounds in Coahoma County, Mississippi, with the help of a company of ten men. The collection includes a number of well-preserved skeletons of mound-builders, some good fragmentary pottery, including many colored and decorated specimens, and an excellent collection of arrow and lance heads, knives, and other stone implements. The classification of this collection, which filled twelve large boxes...
Atlantic: "The Solitude of Nathaniel Hawthorne" by P. E. More '93: "The Mississippi Valley Organized," by James L. Hosmer '55; "Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic," by Henry Austin Clapp '60; "Modern Murder Trials and Newspapers," by Charles E. Grinnell...
...Charles Peabady, Ph.D. '93, of the Archaeological Department of Andover, undertook during May and June some excavations for the Peabody Museum in the region of the Mississippi Delta. He was assisted by W. C. Farabee 3G. From the two mounds which he examined he collected ten boxes of specimens--skeletons, points of arrows, lances and javelins, and a few pots and stone implements...
Special railroad rates for the Summer School students have been secured this year for the first time. Two-thirds of the homeward fare will be deducted on tickets over all the railroads covering the territory east of the Alleghany, the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. A similar reduction will probably be secured from points in Texas and in some of the central and western states...