Word: peruvian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Passing from the dangerous, rock-bound coast to the plains of the interior, the tourist comes upon the great nitrate beds, which furnish the chief income to this otherwise unproductive country. The export of nitrate is enormous and was the chief cause of the late Chili-Peruvian...
...South American Expedition which left last year under the leadership of Dr. W. C. Farrabee to study Peruvian ethnological remains, is nearly ended, and Dr. Farrabee is expected in Cambridge some time this spring. Mr. Teobert Maler and Mr. E. H. Thompson have continued their research work in Yucatan with considerable success...
...Ernest Volk in the glacial deposits near Trenton, N. J., several paleolithic implements were found and additional geological facts were obtained in confirmation of the antiquity of man in the Delaware Valley. The report describes the expedition to South America and acknowledges the courtesies extended by the Peruvian Government, the Inca Mining Company, and others...
...Planet Eros. With the Bruce Photographic telescope, 6,174 plates have been exposed, including a large number of exposures of asteroids, several of which are probably new. One of these asteroids has a greater eccentricity than any one hitherto known, and has been named Odlo, after the Peruvian goddess. A photograph of Eros was obtained nearly a month before it was observed elsewhere after its conjunction with...
...Peruvian Government has offered to give Harvard the land needed for extending the University observatory at Arequipa. In addition, the instruments and equipment for the observatory will be allowed to enter the country free of duty. The President of Peru was led to this action by reading a report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere...