Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George Francis Train gave a rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
August 1st to 9th, at or near Catskill, in charge of Professor Davis. This week will be given to the examination of the Silurian and Devonian formations exposed in the foothills of the Catskill mountains, with collection of the characteristic fossils, study of structure in its relation to topography, and construction of geological maps and sections. A day or more may be given to the ascent of the Catskill mountain front, returning by the Kaaterskill clove...
August 11th to 16th, at or near North Adams, in charge of Mr. J. E. Wolff. This week will be spent in the study of the Taconic rocks and stratigraphy as found in the Greylock mountain mass, and of the metamorphic rocks of the Green mountains and their stratigraphy as exemplified by the structure and rocks of Hoosac mountain...
...information which the circular calls for relates to the topographical and meteorological conditions, and incidentally the geographical situation of places in the southern hemisphere deemed to be eligible. It is suggested that books of travel giving intelligent description of mountain regions, guide ooks and photographs will be of value as suggestions to the director of the observatory...
Four students passed their holidays at the Eagle Mountain House, Jackson, N. H. and explored Tuckerman's Ravine and Kearsarge Mountain. As the thermometer indicated 15 degrees below zero while they were there it seemed rather a good preparation for Artic exploration...