Word: volcanoes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...model of the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea, which Robert Wilcox Sayles '01, of Brookline, will present to the University, has just been completed and is now installed in the Geological Museum. Mr. Sayles will give the model to the University this spring in memory of his sister, Caroline M. Sayles...
...Curtis '96, is the artist. Before beginning his work he spent three months at the volcano taking photographs and maps. All the modelling was done from photographs, of which many were taken from kites. J. F. Haworth, of Pittsburgh, was responsible for the kite photography. Mr. Curtis was also the artist of the model of the Metropolitan District of Boston, which is on exhibit in the Museum. This latter won the first prize at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and is surpassed now only by the model of Kilauea...
...copy of the Hawaiian volcano is circular in form, with a scale of one foot to 1,500 feet. Thus the complete model is about 15 feet across, and shows in relief Kilauea, Kilauea-Iki (little Kilauea), Halemauman (house of big fire), and the surrounding volcanic plateau...
...trench about half an hour, and were about to enter our shelters in the second line trenches when not far away came two fairly loud bomb explosions in quick succession. Then the earth seemed all of a sudden to reel. There was a commotion like the bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous human limbs, rose slowly and majestically. The upper fragments, as they rose, seemed to advance menacingly in our direction, as if they must surely hit us when they returned...
...interest of the University Geological Museum, G. C. Curtis '96, has been commissioned to go to Hawaii by R. W. Sayles '03, Curator of the Geological Collections. Mr. Curtis will start at once for Hawaii, where he will construct for the Museum a model of the great volcano, Kilauea. Professor T. A. Jaggar, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now in Hawaii making a prolonged study of the same volcano...