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Coincident with General Bullard's retirement from command of the Second Corps Area, Major General Charles G. Morton, also 64, retired from command of the Ninth Corps Area with headquarters at San Francisco...
Major General Robert Lee Bullard last week quitted his post as Commander of the Second Corps Area with headquarters at Governor's Island, N. Y.-retired at the age of 64. General Bullard was the commander of the famed First Division in France. He is the last of what was called the "Big Four" to be retired for age. The other three are Major General Jaine G. Harbord (now President of the Radio Corporation of America), Major General Hunter Liggett and General J. J. Pershing...
...area of the Netherlands is 12,761 square miles (about three times the size of Connecticut), its population 7,029,881. The Dutch Empire in the East Indies is 832,473 square miles (one-third the size of the U. S.) in extent and has a population...
...Canada. The royal charter issued to the Company, still preserved in London, presented it with about a third of modern Canada. During the next 200 years, the "Company of Merchant Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" conducted a government and operated trading posts over an area 1,000 miles wide by 3,000 miles long. The company's earliest business consisted in purchasing furs from the Indians, and selling them in Europe at large profits. Later, when Canada began to be settled, the Company took to selling parts of its enormous land holdings to colonists...
...advantage of this itinerary is that it covers a populated area and a part of the world where there are already established observatories; too frequently eclipses take place in inaccessible places, where astronomical equipment has to be taken at great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes...