Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cobb '07, W. H. Appleton '06, H. S. Forbes '05, A. Dana '06, R. Grant 4M., J. N. Thorne '08, H. H. Rowland '06, H. T. Read '06, S. C. Dickinson '05, S. E. Turner '05, H. B. Francis '08, S. Whitaker 3L., S. T. Hubbard, Jr., '07, J. Murdoch '06, L. Strauss '06, F. Dixon '07, P. Woodman '08, R. C. Houghton '08, M. S. Crosby '08, P. W. L. Cox '06, C. Wesselhoeft...
...John Murdoch...
...Keough '04, Price Greenleaf C. E. Lakeman '04, Price Greenleaf J. Lebowich '06, John Harvard C. F. Lovejoy '04, John Harvard D. A. McCabe '04, Price Greenleaf N. S. McKendrick '04, Bowditch L. Mayer '05, John Harvard J. A. Moody '05, Price Greenleaf H. Morrison '05, Bowditch J. Murdoch, Jr., '06, Bowditch F. H. Osgood '04, Bowditch DeW. H. Parker '06, John Harvard J. W. Plaisted, 2d, '06, Bowditch E. L. Porter '04, Bartlett C. R. Post '04, John Harvard E. M. Rabenold '04, Bowditch W. K. Rainsford '04, John Harvard H. Raymond '05, Bigelow J. A. Reeves '06, Matthews...
...John Murdoch lectured before the Anthropological Society last night in the Peabody Museum, on the "Arts and Customs of the Point Barrow Eskimos." A few years ago Mr. Murdoch was a member of the United States meteorological station established on Point Barrow at the north-westerly extremity of Alaska. In his stay there he had a good opportunity to study the habits and customs of the Eskimos who lived in the surrounding country...
...Murdoch gave also a short description of the methods of transportation on sledges and then finished with a description of a peculiar method of trapping wolves. The Eskimos take a piece of whalebone about a foot long, sharpen it at both ends, and bend it into the shape of a letter Z. This bone is then imbedded in a piece of blubber and frozen there so that it retains its Z shape. When a wolf sees one of these balls of blubber he swallows the mass whole. The heat of his stomach melts the blubber and the whalebone, thus...