Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...party of three men, consisting of A. F. Blakeslee 4G., J. R. Johnston 1G., and an assistant, will spend this summer in Trinidad and a neighboring island for the purpose of collecting botanical specimens for the University. Mr. Johnston, who has already sailed, will make a study of the flora of the islands and will collect specimens for the Gray Herbarium. Mr. Blakeslee will sail on June 13 and will make a special study of the algae fungi of the places visited...
Professor White will sail in the fall for Italy to spend the winter engaged in investigations on Aristophanes in the libraries of Rome and northern Italy, leaving there in the spring of 1904 for a month in Greece...
Professor Strobel will sail sometime during the coming summer for Siam where he will spend the next two years as legal adviser to the King of Siam...
Professor Munsterberg will sail for Germany on Saturday, where he will officially represent the St. Louis Exposition in an effort to secure the co-operation of the German government and educational institutions in the international congress of science to be held in St. Louis next year. Professor Simon Newcomb '58 of Johns Hopkins University and Professor Small of the University of Chicago, have been made similar envoys to France and England, respectively. Professor Munsterberg will return to Cambridge in the latter part of September...
...Liverpool, the party will travel through Holland, France and Germany to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the way. From Pekin they will go to Hong Kong and Java, and then returning to Hong Kong will sail for San Francisco, arriving in Boston late next autumn...