Word: african
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delivered an interesting and convincing lecture last evening on "The Congo Question" in the Living Room of the Union. As an introduction to his lecture, Mr. Mansfield gave a detailed account of the history of the Congo Free State. In 1876 King Leopold caused the formation of the International African Association which immediately sent an expedition to the east coast of Africa...
...mammals from Lower California and Central and Western China; a series of Icelandic birds, from Messrs. J. W. Hastings and L. J. deG. Milhau; a number of mammalian heads and horns and the mount of a male caribou from Dr. W. L. Smith M.'92; a specimen of an African tortoise and two large monitors from the New York Zoological Society; and a series of Hawaiian corals from the American Museum of Natural History...
...trinkets, collected by Dr. Agassiz during his visit to Africa last winter. The collection comprises more than 200 specimens, obtained from the Bantu, Nandi, Lumbwa and Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens from the Somali negroes, of Northeast Africa, and from the Mombasa region of South British Africa. The collection consists of spears, clubs, shields, war-knives, clothing, musical instruments, dishes, gourd vessels, spoons, corn-mills and other household utensils, pipes...
...African Nature Notes and Reminiscences," by F. C. Selons...
...delivered by Professor A. B. Hart '80, in Huntington Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of the series is "The Real South," and the lecture tonight will be on "The Caucasian Problem." The rest of the series is as follows: Tuesday, February 25, "The African Problem"; Friday, February 28, "Race Problems"; Tuesday, March 3, "Wealth and its Distribution"; Friday, March 6, "The Cotton Commonwealth"; Tuesday, March 10, "Education"; Friday, March 13, "Is there a Solution...