Word: valparaiso
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Professor J. B. Woodworth '94, now on the Shaler Memorial Expedition in South America, will spend the rainy season in Chile, between Valdivia and Valparaiso, in an investigation of shore-line changes...
...October. The Brazilian government, through the government survey, has offered facilities for prosecution of the work of the expedition. On the completion of the field work Professor Woodworth will proceed via Buenos Ayres to the coast of Chill for the purpose of investigating shore line changes, leaving Valparaiso in time to reach Cambridge at the end of the leave of absence...
...paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station, gave complete records of the San Francisco, Valparaiso, and the great Indian earthquakes. The Harvard station will pay particular attention to New England earthquakes and to the geological examination of the recent fault-lines along which it is suspected many historically recorded small shocks have arisen...
Under these circumstances, it was but proper that the agents of this country should offer an asylum to the refugees of the presidential party. However, this act greatly incensed the congressional party. These events lead up to the assault at Valparaiso upon the sailors from the Baltimore. It was some time before Chile did anything. Finally she did offer a slight apology...