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...Chignik, the expedition awaited a new engine for their commander's plane. This was to be their last stop on the American continent. They were scheduled to wend their way over the sparsely populated Aleutian Islands, with only a few fishermen to help in case of need...
...expedition is a wonderful study in Geography. The Aleutian Islands are not at the end of the world. They are halfway on the shortest route from North America to Asia, perhaps the site of future air ports of intercontinental air lines...
Professor T. A. Jaggar '93, recently a professor of geology in the University, and the foremost authority on earthquakes and volcanoes, returned yesterday to take up his new work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after a long expedition of scientific research among the Aleutian. Islands, Special attention was paid to volcanoes on this trip. It has been learned that these islands in the northern Pacific are more volcanic than any other district of the globe...
...members of the senior class of the Institute of Technology accompanied Professor Jaggar. The results of their investigations are to appear later in the Technology Quarterly. The party visited all the islands of the Aleutian chain from Unimak Pass to Atka. It was found that the island of Bogoslof was one of the wonders of volcanology. This island volcano is northwest of the peninsula of Alaska. It first appeared as the result of an eruption in 1796, and it has been more or less active ever since...
...Lewis H. Farlow of Boston has recently given the Peabody Museum an interesting and valuable collection of Indian baskets. It includes some remarkably fine specimens from the Aleutian Islands, British Columbia and California, and an odd and rare gambling placque of the Yuma Indians of Nevada. Mrs. Q. Nuthall has presented the Museum with several cases of rare Mexican objects, and a representative collection has been received from Mr. Alexander Agassiz, illustrating the ethnology of the Maldive Islands, which he visited last winter...