Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1903-1903
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...region to its occupation by ancient peoples. Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward to Western Siberia, whence...
Professor W. M. Davis has returned from his journey to Turkestan, as a member of the Carnegie Institute Expedition for archaeological and geographic study, which was led by Professor Raphael Pumpelly of Newport. The chief subjects of his geographic investigations were the elevated shore lines of the Caspian Sea, the extensive river-plains of central Turkestan, and the terraces and glacial deposits among the western ranges of the Tian Shan mountain system. The furthest point reached by Professor Davis was Lake Issikkul in North-Eastern Turkestan, whence he returned through Western Siberia and St. Petersburg. Mr. Ellsworth Huntington...
Professor W. M. Davis of the Department of Geology will leave for eastern Europe on April 17 and in Baku on the Caspian Sea, will join Professor R. Pumpelly of Newport, formerly Professor of Geology in Harvard. Professor Davis and Professor Pumpelly will then make a trip of four months through western Asia, to study the geology and geography of that region. They will cross the Caspian, pass Mero, and proceed to Samarkand and Tashkeut. On their return they will cross the plains, passing the Sea of Aral and the southern end of the Ural Mountains, to Orenboorg in southeastern...