Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Physical Colloquium. The Present Direction of Physical Research. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Physical Colloquium. The Present Direction of Physical Research. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has just returned from an extensive trip in the West, where he has been engaged in research, and advisory work. Most of the time he has been in California carrying on investigations of the question of the antiquity...
...engaged in his work in California, Professor Putnam was invited by President Wheeler, of the University of California, and by Mrs. P. A. Hearst, one of the regents, to organize a department of Anthropology in the University. Mrs. Hearst has donated 850,000 a year for five years for research in Anthropology, and Professor Putnam is chairman of the committee in charge of the research. Some portion of the fund will be devoted to the exhaustive study of geological deposits, to try to ascertain when man first appeared in California, and some will be used to study the great variety...
...spoke briefly on the function of a university. He said it had three aims--the conservation, the transmission and the advancement of knowledge. The first of these is accomplished by museums, the second by the education of raw material, and the third by the promotion of research. The last of these is the part that an observatory does...