Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Archaeological Survey, headed by Professor Frederick H. Stearns of the Peabody Museum, has just discovered some most remarkable ruins of three stratifications of prehistoric villages, belonging to three distinct peoples. Although the expedition had already completed its work for the season and was upon the point of returning to the University, the discovery is regarded as so important that the scientists have indefinitely extended their stay in order that they may thoroughly investigate the great archaeological "find". The centuries-old villages lie buried in a narrow Nebraskan valley between two high bluffs, twenty-five miles below Omaha, near the Missouri...
...which is substantially a revision of the Presidents former work "The Governments and Parties of Continental Europe." The new volume is designed primarily as a text-book to make more available the substance of the original work, but it also provides in interesting form the most recent and authoritative survey of governmental machinery in the chief states of the Continent...
...From a survey of the Photographs who can avoid passing to at least a glance at the reading matter? And once caught our attention is held. Here too there is food for every taste...
...Women's Educational and Industrial Union is inviting members and friends to visit the departments of the Union, 264 Boylston street, during the week. The plan is an innovation for the purpose of enabling members and friends to obtain a comprehensive survey of the Union and an understanding of the varied and valuable work it is carrying on. The departments in general will be open from 8.30 A. M. until...
National Bureaus such as the Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Soils and the Bureau of Chemistry and the Geological Survey, State Agricultural Stations, and State and Municipal Boards of Health, also require the services of a large number of chemists. Minor positions in the laboratories of such bureaus involve analytical work, frequently of foodstuffs, but sometimes of minerals, fuels, building materials, etc. The oversight of such laboratories requires, however, the breadth of view and experience of a highly trained chemist, since much of the work consists of the investigation of chemical problems...