Word: monograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more, as scientists previously believed, declares H. J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, after the first exhaustive study ever made of most of the material now available on the subject throughout the world. His findings are set forth in a monograph just published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology under the title "A Revision of the Genus Gorilla...
...Coolidge's monograph is remarkable, not only because he reduces the genus Gorilla to one species, but because he has differentiated two specific subspecies, the "mountain" and the "coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time...
Among the tangible results of the Schwab expedition are eighteen cases of ethnological specimens, about 500 negatives depicting various phases of native life, and 440 complete anthropometric records pertaining to the natives of ten different tribes. The monograph, which will be published after analysis of the field work, will, of course, be the most valuable contribution of the expedition to science...
...What May the Senior High Schools Demand of the Junior High Schools." He will also address the National Association of High School Supervisors and Inspectors on the subject, "Should Rural Communities Attempt to Establish Junior High Schools." Professor Spaulding, who is well known in educational work, recently published a monograph on the small junior high school...
...strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself the author of great advances in electrical communication, Dr. Pupin predicted the ultimate translation of cosmic messages from...