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...Elko-Pasco to Walter T. Varney of San Francisco...
...party will make their headquarters at Gerro de Pasco, Peru, situated in the Andes at a height of over 14,000 feet, where there is one of the largest copper mines in the world. The town is one of the loftiest places on the globe where any considerable number of people live...
...object of the expedition will be to study the changes in the heart, circulation, respiration, and chemical composition of the blood which enable the residents of Cerro de Pasco to live there in comfort and to arduous work in the copper-mines, at an altitude in which most people would be able to do comparatively little on account of the rarity of the air. Scientists have frequently spent a few days or weeks at great heights to test the effect of the altitude on themselves, but the studies made on the natives of Cerro de Pasco will be the first...
After completing the studies at Cerro de Pasco, the investigators expect to spend a short time at Ticleo, on the watershed of the Andes. Ticleo, which is at an altitude of 16,000 feet, is the highest standard gauge railroad station in the world. They will return by February first, and later in the year Mr. Bancroft will give a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston...
Among the new members elected to the Washington Harvard Club at the last meeting were Senator Pasco of Florida, Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, Judges Cooley and Bragg of interstate commerce commission, Professor Henry Mitchell, Second Comptroller Sigourney Butler, and Congressmen Burnett, Cogswell, Rockwell and Lodge of Massachusetts...