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...Sever 11 on Africa. The talk will be a general one with remarks on the nature of the country, the reasons why we have known so little about it, recent explorations and particularly modern political divisions. The recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile should lend added interest...
...latest word received from President Eliot was from Genoa. In a previous letter he mentioned having travelled up the Nile as far as the second cataract. It is not yet definitely known when he expects to return...
Professor Carpenter said that scholars have disputed as to whether Egyptian religion was polytheistic or monotheistic. The fact is that the subordinate deities were grouped around one central deity. The sun, wind, rain, as well as the great river Nile combined to produce the splendors of Egypt. Among these, the sun, or Ra, was worshipped as the central deity...
There were various localities for the life beyond the grave. One of these was the Isle of the Double, at the source of the Nile; again, the West, where the sun god disappeared at night, was a favorite locality. The place of the dead was also associated with the sky, and a ladder to mount by was often provided...
Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on the Geography and Geology of the Nile Valley, Mr. R. DeC. Ward; The Chemical Relationship of the Eruptive Rocks of the Crazy Mts., Montana, Professor Wolff. Geological Laboratory...