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...University Museum on Friday afternoons at 4.30 o'clock, beginning November 28. Stereopticon views and experiments will be made use of to illustrate the lectures, which will include a wide range of geological topics. The subjects of the lectures are as follows: November 28, "The Lesson of the Colorado Canon," by Professor W. M. Davis; December 5, "Clouds: their Formation and Classification," by Professor R. deC. Ward; December 12, "Experimental Geology," by Dr. T. A. Jaggar; December 17, "Crystal Optics and the Structure of Crystals," by Professor J. E. Wolff...
...Lesson of the Colorado Canon. (Illustrated by Stereopticon.) Professor W. M. Davis...
Century -- "The Grand Canon of the Colorado," by John Muir h.'96; "The Echo Hunt," by D. Gray...
Professor Davis and J. W. Goldthwait '02 described the expedition of a party from the University which left Cambridge shortly after Commencement for the plateau north of the Colorado canon in Arizona and Southern Utah. This party was composed of Professor Davis, E. V. Huntington 3G., J. W. Goldthwait '02, and Messrs. G. B. Dorr '74 of Boston and A. Cobb of Newton. For two nights the party camped on the esplanade or platform in Colorado canon about 1500 feet below the plateau and 3500 feet above the river. The members spent most of their time in studying the great...
...latter part of the summer the party divided. The first division with Mr. Dorr and Mr. Cobb went farther eastward to the deepest part of the canon, while Professor Davis went to the mountain ranges of the Great Basin in Nevada and Oregon. Mr. Huntington crossed the deserts southward to California, and Mr. Goldthwait joined Professor Shaler in the mountains of Arizona...