Word: regions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eastern Europe on April 17 and in Baku on the Caspian Sea, will join Professor R. Pumpelly of Newport, formerly Professor of Geology in Harvard. Professor Davis and Professor Pumpelly will then make a trip of four months through western Asia, to study the geology and geography of that region. They will cross the Caspian, pass Mero, and proceed to Samarkand and Tashkeut. On their return they will cross the plains, passing the Sea of Aral and the southern end of the Ural Mountains, to Orenboorg in southeastern Russia. From Orenboorg they will return to the United States, and Professor...
...will include excursions to places of geological interest in Eastern Massachusetts; another, under Professor Woodworth, will study the geology of the Connecticut and Mohawk valleys and the Catskill mountains; a third, in charge of Mr. C. H. White, will consist of five weeks' field-work in the Rocky mountain region, probably in Southern Colorado...
...Wilfred Grenfell of the Hospital Ship, "Strathcona," spoke last evening in Sanders Theatre on "Labrador Life on the Atlantic Seaboard." He told of the topographical and scenic characteristics of the Labrador region and of the peculiar conditions of life existing there. Among the fishermen and the natives on the barren coast, the Royal Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, under whose direction Dr. Grenfell's hospital ship is conducted, has for many years been doing a very successful work...
...exhaustive, and its preparation required an immense amount of work covering a period of about two years. The engineering problems connected with the project, while complicated, are entirely capable of solution. The chief reasons for the construction of the dam are the resulting sanitary betterment of the contiguous region and the value which such a basin would have in relation to the Boston, Cambridge and Metropolitan park systems. Moreover it would be a great addition to the attractions of the city proper...
...Allen showed some interesting specimens of the mammals of the region...