Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails...
About twelve of the glass models have been remounted, and there is a marked improvement in the effect produced when they are compared with the models of the flowers as they come from Germany, mounted on cardboard. The whole work onremounting is carefully done, in the Museum itself. After the plaster for a mount is cast, minute holes are bored in it, where necessary, and then the model is secured in place by fine silver wire. All the fastening of the ends of wire is done at the back of the cast, and at a slight distance there is nothing...
Several gifts have been made by Dr. Agassiz and Dr. W. Mc M. Woodworth to the ethnological collection from the South Sea Islands at the Peabody Museum. The gifts from Dr. Agassiz consisted of a wooden model of a Fiji canoe, a cooking stove for use on canoes, and a very old Fiji bowl...
...canoe, about six feet long, complete in every detail, was made at the request of Dr. Agassiz; it is the model of a large Fiji outrigger working canoe, and is distinguished from a war canoe by the fact that the latter is made double instead of with an outrigger. The boat is caulked with gum, which is protected by strips of palm, and the various portions of the hull are fastened together by ropes of cocoanut fibre. All the cordage is made of this same fibre. The large lateen sail is made of strips of pandanas leaf, sewed together with...
...been done in all departments of the Museum during the year. Exploration in Central America has been successfully continued, and photographs, moulds, casts, and sculptures have been added to the collections. The series of moulds taken from the great Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan has been completed and a model of the ancient city is now in the Central American Hall of the Museum. T. e. Sacred Buffalo Hide and other articles belonging to the Omaha Indians, which were stolen from their keeper just as he was about to present them to the Museum have been found in the collection...