Word: asia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...week. On Monday, November 16, the Florida Academy Quartet will sing plantation melodies. On Tuesday, November 17, Mr. Ralph D. Paine, Yale '94, will speak; probably on "The Journey from Shanghai to Pekin." Mr. Paine was recently a correspondent, of the Boston Herald, and has travelled much in Eastern Asia. The entertainments will be open to Union members only...
...Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. His lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon and will probably be on the recent disturbances in China. Mr. Paine was recently a correspondent of the Boston Herald, and has had a great deal of experience in Eastern Asia. The lecture will be open to Union members only...
...ranges of the Tian Shan mountain system. The furthest point reached by Professor Davis was Lake Issikkul in North-Eastern Turkestan, whence he returned through Western Siberia and St. Petersburg. Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, for-two years a graduate student, accompanied Professor Davis as Carnegie Research Assistant and remains in Asia to continue the studies begun last summer...
...collection of Baron de Beyet of Brussels, which has just been purchased by Mr. Andrew Carnegie as a gift to the University. The gift was purchased through the influence of Dr. Eastman. This collection is especially rich in specimens of extinct birds and animals of central Europe and northern Asia, and contains many that cannot be duplicated. Baron de Beyet has made a life long study of extinct fauns, and his classifications have been accepted by most of the universities of Europe...
Professor C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will all from New York next Friday, in company with his son, A. R. Sargent '00, and Mr. John Muir, the distinguished naturalist of the Pacific coast, for an extended trip through Europe and northern Asia in the interest of the Arboretum. Landing at Liverpool, the party will travel through Holland, France and Germany to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the way. From Pekin they will go to Hong Kong and Java, and then returning to Hong...