Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Paul Pelliot will deliver a lecture in the Fogg Art Museum tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on "Neolithic Art in Northern China." The lecture will be illustrated and will be open to the public...
Professor Pelliot comes to this country from the College de France where he has acquired a large reputation as a scholar in matters pertaining to Oriental art. He will speak again on Thursday afternoon in the Fogg Museum on "Discoveries of Colonel Koslov in Northern China...
Last week the grey silence of northern Alaska was ruptured by an occasional rifle crack. Furtive eyes of the wild hiding in snow-hung tamarack tangles would see a fur-muffled Eskimo dragging his quarry to a camp fire, where seven other humans busied themselves preparing sledges and sleeping bags for another night in the wilderness, and 58 tawny-and-grey husky dogs nuzzled down to rest or sat on their haunches growling for supper...
...This amber is the fossilized resin of great pine trees which grew in northern Europe during the early Tertiary period. Naturally, insects just as at present were entangled and covered by the gum, large numbers of them being contained in it when it became fossilized. It is remarkable how excellently these insects are preserved in the amber. Some, of course, are disfigured from one cause or another but many are quite natural in appearance and can be fairly easily studied in the relatively clear material...
Knowledge of these matters is very scarce. Much work has been done further south, but a well-organized expedition has never carried on such extensive research off the northern Labrador coast. One of the greatest practical advantages to be gained from this part of the expedition is the understanding of the movements of the ice-burgs that infest the ship-lanes...