Word: regional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...substituting for the object glass a portrait lens like that used by photographers, only larger. The field of view is in this way increased from two degrees square to ten degrees square, and a photograph is obtained of the spectra of all the brighter stars in this large region. Many thousand plates, covering the entire sky, have been taken in this way at the Cambridge and Arequipa stations of this observatory. As a result, numerous remarkable objects have been discovered. One of the latest is the spectrum of a meteor which has thus been photographed for the first time. Since...
...reply to yours of May 26, asking information as to the existence of malaria in the region about the Soldiers Field;- the Board examined the territory, in which the Field is situated, in 1893, and found the following conditions, as reported by the inspector who made the examination. The only place in the neighborhood where any cases were known to have occurred, was at Barry's Corner, where it was stated that there had been six cases in the course of three years. With reference to the Soldiers Field itself I quote the inspector's words...
...matter, and has found that decorative motives, though not entirely, were mostly of symbolic origin, and were evidently closely associated with the religious beliefs and ceremonies of the people. His work, though not very extensive, is of the greatest importance to one interested in the archaeology of this region...
...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...
...paper of Mr. Russell will be the result of original studies made during an extended residence among the Indians in the region of the Great Slave Lake...