Word: research
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...expedition has been planned for botanical and zoological research in South America this summer. Though managed primarily by private persons, Harvard and the University of Chicago are interested in the enterprise...
...Clark '03 will have general charges of the expedition and will also conduct the zoological research, assisted by A. H. Crosbie '03. Others in the party are J. R. Johnston '03, who will be in charge of the botanical research, and O. O. Miller, Jr., his assistant. The party will sail on the S. S. Caracas from New York on June 15, arriving at La Guayra, Venezuela, June 23. From there they will go to Margarita Island, where the bulk of the collecting will be done...
...small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies in a tour covering a year, examined the whole territory of the Holy Land, and his search resulted in the surprising discovery that in Palestine, which is archaeologically the most interesting region of the world, almost no excavations and no organized research are being conducted. The surveys of the British Palestine Exploration Fund, though carefully and thoroughly carried out, have covered but a very small part of the territory, and the valuable archaeological relics scatte red over the rest of it are being destroyed or carried away by business companies...
...medal is annually awarded by the society in recognition of notable astronomical investigations and is regarded as a mark of the highest distinction. It was given to Professor Pickering for his research in regard to variable stars, and his valuable work in astronomical photography. He received the award once before, in 1866, and therefore shares with Le Verier, the French astronomer, the distinction of being one of the two foreign scientists whom the Royal Society has thus twice honored...
...work done by the different observatories varies greatly in character. Private observatories attend chiefly to some special research for which their equipments or situations are favorable. At Greenwich the work consists of testing chronometers for the navy; of transit reductions and determinations of time. The observatory at Pulkowa is pre-eminent for the extreme accuracy of its observations. To this end the apparatus is of a special design and of great accuracy; the methods adopted there sixty years ago are said still to be far in advance of those at present existing in any other government observatory. The Kiel Observatory...