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They are originals of plates one and two of Frederick Catherwood's folio publication on the ancient monuments of Central America, published in London in 1844, and were made by him from his sketches of the ruins of Copan in 1839. The casts of these idols are now on exhibition in the Museum...
Geological Conference. Paper: Ice Action on the Shore of Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Mr. E. P. Carey.- The Geological Folio of the Anthracite-crested Butte, Colorado. Mr. F. C. Schrader. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Paper: Ice Action on the Shore of Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Mr. E. P. Carey.- The Geological Folio of the Anthracite-crested Butte, Colorado. Mr. F. C. Schrader. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This great discovery is exhaustively described and illustrated in five folio volumes on the subject published by the French government. Mr. Austin Henry Layard, an Englishman, took up the work at Nineveh in 1845-7. Victor Place made some valuable excavations at Khorsabad in 1851-55, an account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta...
...remains. He evidently had no anxiety about the future of his works although long before his death he was considered the "prince of dramatists." It is a false idea that there was no appreciation of him during his lifetime, but it was only after the publication of the first folio in 1623 that an adequate realization of his talents was arrived at. In society his reputation was great. He possessed the quality which we now call personal magnetism and he had the love and esteem of companions He moved in a Bohemian world...