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...star is a very prominent one now and its position can be easily described: It can be seen at about seven or eight in the evening by looking overhead at the brighest star in the zenith and following with the eye about one quarter of the area from that star to the western horizon. The distinguishing points are that it is very bright and is almost exactly in the centre of a triangle of three other stars. More specifically--following along that part of the Fence running from the Co-operative to Massachusetts--if one stands by the first post...
...Eastern and Aegaean shores of the Mediterranean, including Asia Minor, that witnessed the earliest development of what may be called a Western civilization. In the Western part of this East-Mediterranean area, Mr. Arthur Evans in 1894 found some records of an ancient Western system of writing, an outgrowth of the early savage pictograph made in all parts of the Mediterranean district by primitive mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on the Physiography of the Driftless Area. Mr. G. D. Hubbard.--Review of Hillebrand's Rock Analysis. Professor Wolff. Rotch Building...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on the Physiography of the Driftless Area. Mr. G. D. Hubbard.--Review of Hidebrand Rock Analysis. Professor Wolff. Rotch Building...
...class is now working in pairs. Every outcrop in the area will be visited and carefully described and specimens will be collected of all important types. The more general work of a similar class last year on a much larger area has made possible extremely accurate and detailed work this year...