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...ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. "The Maya Hieroglyphs of Central America," Mr. C. P. Bowditch '63. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Professor Albrecht Penck, of the University of Vienna, delivered his second lecture on "The Alps in the Great Ice Age" yesterday afternoon, discussing as his special topic, their glacial structure. In explaining this, Professor Penck, with the help of stereopticon views, described the various topographical phenomena of these mountain regions; the broken, or hanging glaciers, the curiously shaped river troughs and the "reverse" drainage in many of the river systems. All these are the result of glacial erosion. The action of the ice is responsible for the uneven river troughs, which cause drainage in all directions; and also...
...ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "'The Steam Turbo-Generator System'" of the Edison Illuminating Company of Boston," Mr. H. E. Moultrop. Pierce 110, 8 P. M. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon...
...ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "The Steam Turbo-Generator System" of the Edison Illuminating Company of Boston," Mr. I. E. Moultrop. Pierce 110, 8 P. M. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon...
Under the auspices of the Anthropological Society Dr. Clark Wisler spoke last night in the Fogg Lecture Room on "The art of the American Indian." Dr. Wisler explained, with the aid of the stereopticon, the several stages of transition in Indian art and the two theories upheld in regard to the development of existing designs. One theory is that present geometrical patterns are the out-growth of primitive realistic ideas, embroidered or carved on bone and Ivory: while another and less probable theory is that all designs which were originally in the shape of diagrams, have gradually developed into more...