Word: quarto
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...connection with his explorations Mr. Moore has published a large number of quarto-memoirs containing the accounts of his work in all his expeditions. These are profusely illustrated and to one interested in the archaeology of this region are of the first importance...
...Honduras. The explorations were begun in the early part of 1891 and have been carried on ever since. Progress has been necessarily slow because it has been impossible for any work to be done except in the dry seasons. This report is the first one of a series of quarto memoirs which the Peabody Museum will issue in regard to these discoveries at Copan. It consists of a preliminary outline of the nature of the explorations and their results from 1891 through 1895. The text is explained throughout by numerous illustrations. The quarto also contains several half-tone plates...
...room in the Peabody Museum to know that there is now in press a general report on the explorations carried on by the Museum at Copan in Honduras during the years 1891-95. This report will form the first number of the Memoirs of the Peabody Museum, a large quarto publication. It will contain a general account of the several explorations with descriptions of the prominent monoliths and sculptures and a number of illustrations. These illustrations, some of which are in the text, and others in the form of halftone reproductions from photographs, give a very clear idea...
Forty assistants take part in the work of the observatory. The results obtained are published in a series of Annals, and now fill thirty quarto volumes. The preparation of these volumes occupies a large part of the force at the observatory in Cambridge. Besides this labor, a large amount of observation is done there, several instruments being kept in constant use. The largest of these are the fifteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle, the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the eight-inch photographic telescope, and the meridian photometer...
...dissertations must be written upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that they may be bound up without injury to the writing. The sheets on which the dissertation is written must be securely stitched together. The dissertations must not contain more than 10,000 words...