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Ancient civilizations of Pern and Central America will be the subject of a tour of Peabody Museum at 2.30 o'clock Wednesday, personally conducted by Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology and curator of the museum, under the auspices of the Boston E.R.A. Popular Lectures Project...
...same sense that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., were colonies ruled by British. According to the charter granted William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration of Independence. The Revolutionary war was fought by twelve Colonies and one Province...
...photographing of the heavens has continued at Cambridge and at Pern by the Draper memorial fund, where at Chosica Mr. B dev has taken 1,309 photographs including almost the entire southern heaven from 20 degrees south of the equator to the south pole...
Work under the boyden fund has been continued in Pern California and Cambridge in the last of which places Professor Pickering took personal charge of the work, making observations on Mars and experimenting in astronomical photography. Researches were made on the meteorology of the earth and on the nebulous region in Orion...
...August the instruments on Wilson's Peak in California were sent to Cambridge for shipment to Areguipa in Pern, the location chosen for further observations. Great service was rendered the expedition by Hon. John Hicks, American minister to Pern, and Senor L. L. De Rumma of Areguipa, under whose direction valuable meteorological observations were made...