Word: steamer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Conditionally upon the formation of a sufficiently large party, a geological and geographical excursion in the North Atlantic for the summer of 1901 was planned last January. It was proposed to hire a steamer of about 1000 tons specially adapted for ice navigation and capable of accommodating 60 men. The expedition was to visit Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. As only twenty-one men have signified their wish to go on this excursion the original plan has been abandoned and an alternative proposed...
...geological and geographical excursion in the North Atlantic is planned for the summer of 1901. Conditionally on the formation of a sufficiently large party, a steamer of about 1000 tons, specially adapted for ice navigation, and capable of accommodating 60 men will leave Boston on or about June 26 and return to the same point on or about September 20. The main object of the voyage will be to offer to the members of the excursion party opportunity of studying the volcanic cones and lava-fields, the geysers, ice-caves and glaciers of Iceland, the fiords and glaciers...
...Penal Institutions Commissioner has been secured for an excursion of investigation to Deer Island. Members of the University who are interested in penal and practical charity subjects are cordially invited. The party will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Eastern avenue wharf in time to take the government steamer, "J. Putnam Bradise," which leaves from the north side of South Ferry at 2.15 p. m. Men who intend to go are requested to send word to M. Bloomfield, 35 1-2 Brattle street, Cambridge...
...Henri de Regnier, who is to lecture on French literature at Harvard under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, arrived in New York yesterday day on the steamer Normandie...