Word: coast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heaviest fall of snow of the season occurred in the Provinces yesterday. A disastrous gale prevailed along the coast...
...appointed to the Holllis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Professor Lovering has held this position ever since, and has been for many years a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Science. From 1867 to 1876 he was connected with the United States Coast Survey...
...undertaken by Williams College next summer, in which students will join, to procure specimens for use in biology and geology. In future years better advantages for such expeditions will be afforded; for the college has obtained a share in a laboratory which is to be built on the southern coast of Massachusetts, and which will give every facility for the collection of specimens and for original work. It is expected to be the best thing of its kind in the world. A steamer has already been procured, which will be fitted up with apparatus for deep sea dredging, and electric...
...observations of the transit Wednesday at the Harvard Observatory Professor Pickering with his assistants were able to produce the finest effects obtained any where on the Atlantic coast...
Telegrams to the London Times from various parts of the United Kingdom report a snow storm of unusual severity. Traffic on the railways in many districts has been almost, if not altogether, suspended. Many wrecks around the coast are reported...