Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...made a specialty of Philippine ethnology. After taking his degree of B.S. from Kalamazoo College and from the University of Chicago he became an honorary fellow at Wisconsin University, where he received in 1899 the degree of Ph.D. For some years past he has been engaged in government research in the Philippine Islands, and since 1903 has been chief of the Ethnological Survey there. He has studied the economic life of the Negritos, the primitive race in the Islands, and of the peoples engrafted upon them, and it is of the various features of the present mixed population that...
...never cared very much for the closet study of exact sciences, and although he constantly applied mathematical computations in interpreting and generalizing from natural phenomena, he regarded such processes as a useful instrument of research rather than an end worth while in themselves. Tangible, physical facts were his chief interest...
During the terrible disaster at Mt. Pelee in 1902 Professor Jaggar was sent forward on the first government relief ship that left this country, and while there made an exhaustive research into the natural phenomena which caused the eruption...
...times before the Anthropological Society, has made a special study of Indian life and has visited all of the important tribes west of the Mississippi. He has been so successful in his work that Mr. J. P. Morgan has advanced the sum of $75,000 to aid in his research. The remarkable pictures that Mr. Curtis has obtained give a true and scientific view of the Indian life of the west, and nearly a hundred of these pictures have been placed in the Union for exhibition. A still larger number of which those in the Union are duplicates have been...
Professor T. W. Richards has received a grant of $2500, and Assistant Professor G. P. Baxter one of $1000, from the Carnegie Institution at Washington, for research work in chemistry...