Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trees on the University grounds of gypsy and brown-tail moths has occupied five men during the past seven months and has cost about $600. Twenty-five bushels of brown-tail moth nests have been cut from the trees and burned. These nests were found in large numbers near the University Museum. The nests of the gypsy moth were painted with creosote. These were numerous in the Yard and were found even on the walls of the buildings...
...fourth floor in the south end of Thayer; one on the fourth floor in the south end of Weld; one on the fourth floor in the north end of Weld; one in the Germanic Museum; one in Robinson Hall; one in the fire-room of Sever Hall; one near Room A in Sever Hall; one in the porter's room in Walter Hastings, Perkins, and Conant; one in Holden; one in Warren House; one on the first floor and one near Room 10 in Lawrence Hall; one, in the Studio Building; one in the basement of the New Lecture Hall...
Professor J. B. Woodworth will conduct a party to visit Joggin's Section, near the head of the Bay of Fundy, in Nova Scotia. This party will leave Boston on April 14 and will return before the end of the recess...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. Papers: "Geological Features near Canton, Mass.," Mr. A. K. Adams (25 minutes); "Glacial Lakes in Northern Vermont," Professor J. B. Woodworth (20 minutes). Geological Lecture Room...
...important discovery has been made at the Astronomical Observatory by means of the new 24-inch reflecting telescope obtained with the anonymous fund of 1902. This telescope has been used in measuring the light from three of the variable stars discovered recently near the nebula of Orion by means of photographic plates. These measurements have proved conclusively that the light from these faint stars varies, a fact which heretofore had been unestablished. Before the telescope was completed it was not expected that such accurate work would be possible, and the discovery is of interest both because it shows the progress...