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...Tenney of Cambridge, who has lived in China about 20 years, opened the entertainment with a short statement of the existing conditions in China. He said there were about 4,000,000 people, occupying an area of about 40,000 square miles, who were at present living on the bark of trees and on roots cooked in water...
...most characteristic sections of the country, including the famous gold mines of the Rand at Johannesburg, the great diamond mines of Kimberley, the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi river, and the so-called Dwyka glacial conglomerate of Permian date, a sheet of unstratified clay, and boulders covering an area of about 200,000 square miles, some account of which will be given by Professor Davis at the nest Geological Conference. The whole expedition, which occupied 110 days, was excellently managed and gave an immense amount of pleasure and information to those who took part...
...glacier in Europe. In six days the expedition reached Akureyri, after a ride of over 500 miles. Here the party separated, Dr. Farabee and four others returning by the post road to Reykjavik, while two members of the expedition proceeded east to Seydisfjord, visiting on the way the volcanic area about Lake Myvatn, Rifstangi, the most northerly point of the island, and several other places of interest. One other member of the party took the steamer from Akureyri, going around the north and east coasts...
...foundation of granolithic stone, will be six feet square and raised about one foot above the ground. Each building will be represented by a bronze plate giving its name and the date of its construction. Brass lines will indicate the boundaries of the lots from which the present area of the Yard gradually grew until its completion in 1835, and within these lines the names of the lots and the dates of their acquisition will be indicated in bronze...
...will spend six days of the recess in field work at Pondville, Massachusetts, beginning Monday. Men may take the morning train from Back Bay Station at 7.34 o'clock; and, returning, leave Pondville for Boston in the afternoon at 5.38 o'clock. The bed-rock geology of a small area in the carboniferous basin of Norfolk County will be studied and maps will be made of the rock outcrops in this region...