Word: andes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tello '11, G. K. Noble '17, and Dr. L. S. Moss will leave New York for Paita, Peru, in about ten days on a South American expedition for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Paita they will travel on mules across the Andes, and into the Amazon valley. The purpose of the expedition is to collect zoological specimens and to study the native tribe of Guarani Indians. Dr. Tello, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, will make anthropological investigations and study the language of the Indians, while Dr. Moss will study diseases and their...
...party will sail from Boston Thursday, April 24, stopping three days at the Panama Canal. They will then proceed down the west coast of South American, stopping, among other places, at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, and going as far south as Valparaizo. Here they will cross the Andes and proceed to Buenos Ayres. Following the east coast north, many stops will be made, the expedition arriving in Boston July...
...Japan, where he lived for ten years. In 1894 he established the Lowell Observatory, of which he is the head, at Flagstaff, Arizona. In May, 1900, he undertook an expedition to Tripoli to observe an eclipse of the sun, and a few years later sent a party to the Andes to photograph the planet Mars. It is in connection with this expedition that Professor Lowell is best known. He has made many discoveries about Mars, and was awarded the Janssen Medal of the French Astronomical Society for research work concerning that planet in 1907. He has been a nonresident professor...