Word: surveying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Napoleonic wars the King of the Netherlands agreed to give over the territory about the Essequibo River to the possession of England. No mention of the boundaries was made until in 1840 there arose a dispute. A few months later the British government sent out to have a boundary surveyed. Lord Aberdeen, who commissioned the survey, was anxious to have natural boundaries. Schomburgk, the explorer, followed the Barina River farther than it had seemed to extend before. By this survey considerable more territory was included as British possessions...
...large audience which considerably overflowed the seating capacity of Sanders Theatre last night was a marked compliment to the distinguished scholar and historian who addressed it. The lecture of the evening was an intellingent, scholarly, and extremely interesting survey of the early Western campaign and brought into relief in a vivid, instructive, though necessarily brief fashion, the personalities of the principal military leaders on both sides. Dr. Fiske held the close attention of his hearers to the end, and all who were present will await with great interest the subsequent lecutures...
Nurtured by oppression, however, they have thrived and prospered,-today we find them free, recognized and sanctioned by law. From this survey we learn two things: first, that labor associations are beneficent in principle, and a benefit and protection to laborers; second, that they are indestructible and inevitable. Employers are confronted with them as a natural part of our industrial system. In the end it will be much against the employers' interests if they ignore them...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Geography of Charles River, Mr. H. H. Keeler; Notes on the Folios of the U. S. Geological Survey, Mr. R. E. Dodge. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Geography of Charles River, Mr. H. H. Keeler; Notes on the Folios of the U. S. Geological Survey, Mr. R. E. Dodge. Geological Laboratory...