Word: sultan
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...assistants, started last October on an expedition to study the coral structure of the Maldive Islands, off the south coast of Ceylon. When the party reached England, Mr. Chamberlain gave Professor Agassiz letters to the Governor of Ceylon, and the governor, Sir West Ridgeway, gave him letters to the Sultan of the Maldives. In this way every facility possible for their investigations was assured...
Professor Lyon, while on leave of absence abroad, hopes to obtain permission from the Sultan of Turkey, through Hamdi Bey, the curator of the Imperial Museum at Constantinople, for Harvard excavations in Palestine. During the next few months he will probably send boxes of casts of Babylonian and Assyrian objects and any original material, such as clay tablets, which...