Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for 1885-86 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for 1885-86 (Classic Reprint) written by Museum Of Comparative Zoology and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for 1885-86 During the year 1885 - 86, a course of lectures, about sixty in number, on Economical Geology, was given by the Professor to a class consisting chiefly of undergraduates (seniors), with a few candidates for a higher degree. Most of his time not thus occupied was devoted to the preparation of the article United States for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In connection with this work material was collected and illustrations gathered for a course of lectures to be given during the College year 1886 - 87, 011 the material resources of the United States. In this course everything bearing on the development of these resources, with reference to the past, the present, and the possible and probable future, will be discussed, so far as can be done in the allotted time. The statistics of every important branch of industry will be pre sented, with an analysis of the climatic, geographical, and geologi cal conditions having relation to the development of that industry. The investigation of the relations of climate to man, in all aspects, will be a Special feature of the course, which is intended to be, in fact, an introduction to all earnest study of history and political economy, but always with particular reference to conditions pre vailing in the United States. A considerable amount of time has also been given to the study Of the origin and meaning of some of the more difficult words in physical geography, geology, mining, and metallurgy for the Cen tury Company's Dictionary of the English Language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.