Word: continental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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"As a bibliographer he worked in many lines, and as a historian he has set in order for other students the materials in the field which he made his own, and has had the good fortune to finish a wellrounded task, beginning with a history of his native town published...
Among the delegates appointed to attend the commemoration in June at Halifax, N. S., of the landing on the American continent of John Cabot in 1497, are Professor W. J. Ashley, of the Economic Department, as representative of Harvard University; and Dr. Benjamin Rand, of the Philosophical Department, as a...
Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, delivered a popular rather than a scientific lecture on "Greenland, the Arctic Island Continent," in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The lecture was illustrated throughout by stereopticon views of photographs which Lieutenant Peary took on his last Arctic trip. The personal tone given by...
Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that...
Geological Conference. Paper: Green and, the Arctic Island Continent. (Illustrated with stereopticon.) Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, U. S. Navy. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 7.45 p. m.