Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amaral, who is giving a series of lectures this week at the Harvard School of Public Health and is doing research study at the University Museum of Comparative Zoology, is regarded as the world's foremost authority on snakebites. Although the Instituto Bustantan was founded almost 30 years ago, almost all the serums have been produced within the last few years since the young director took over the duties of research and production. Within recent years the Brazilian institution has expanded so that a North American antivenin research institute is now working in conjunction with...
...extreme economy and much effort. Largely as a result of this condition there has been an absence of modernization, and there is today an entire absence of the most ordinary labor-saving appliances and facilities for work. The same reasons have led to conditions inimical to the teaching and research study which should be the primary objects of a university museum...
...staff have now, after long study, reported a plan for extensive rearrangement of the collection which promises to make it admirably adapted for purposes of promoting research study and teaching. This plan will be based upon a change throughout the Museum from the artistic to a scientific arrangement, and will involve the installation in an accessible manner, of material for class room, laboratory, and research specimens, together with offices in which visiting scientists may assemble specimens which cannot be submitted to student handling. It is believed, too, that the rearrangements, and the adoption of sequence in the display collections, will...
...this time I found myself quite ready to sympathize with Dr. Lothrop in his decision that, as a man interested in research work and with another museum urging him to continue in his excellent position with them, he felt unable to devote at least several years to purely administrative work in an effort to place the Peabody in efficient condition...
...newspapers seem to have overlooked it." Professor Hart explained that he is now engaged in the preparation of a 25-volumes edition of Washingtoniana. This edition will contain photographic copies of every known and available document written by or to Washington, and will necessitate about six years of research by leading scholars and collectors