Word: vesuviuses
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...that we should be ashamed to. The stealing of cannon from the government armory was a more bagatelle. One bright wit filled the morning coffee with Tartar Emetic. So vile was the coffee, that no one noticed the taste, and the Yard shortly took on the aspect of Mount Vesuvius. It was common to wage giant war in Commons, when no one's life was safe, Great days. It was common to be cold in winter and hungry, under-fed at all times. Good old days...
...Perret, of Naples, Italy, who has for the past six years made a special study of volcanics, having lived on the sides of Vesuvius, Aetna, and Stromboli during their recent eruptions, will give an illustrated lecture on volcanoes and volcanic action at a special meeting of the Geological Conference in the Geological Museum this afternoon at 4 o'clock. After his introductory statements, the subject will be open for discussion in which it is expected that Professor Jaggar and Professor Daly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Lane of Tufts College, and the professors of the Harvard Geological Department...
...appear to be extinct, and still others which have been extinct so long that they have been more or less completely worn away. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern views from photographs, a number of which were taken by members of the Geological department last summer, thus exhibiting Vesuvius after its recent eruption, Colima recently active in Mexico, and the extinct volcanoes of Arizona. The relation of volcanoes to earthquakes will be briefly touched upon, and the evidence of ancient volcanoes near Boston described...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Age of the Great Forks of the Arizona and Utah Plateaus." Professor D. W. Johnson. "Vesuvius after the Eruption of 1905." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. E. J. Saunders. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Age of the Great Forks of the Arizona and Utah Plateaus." Professor D. W. Johnson. "Vesuvius after the Eruption of 1905." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. E. J. Saunders. Mineralogical Lecture Room...