Geographers Open Day With Papers On Obsolete Maps
The Association of American Geographers opened a three day session at the National Geographic Society building with Washingtoniana pieces highlighted. Dr Gilbert Grosvenor urged broader geography teaching in schools noting geography as a basic cultural subject tied to history and science. N H Darton and Neil M Judd delivered papers while Charles F Marbut spoke on the topic The Promulgation of Geography in Education.
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Washingtoniana
Association of American Geographers
National Geographic Society
Gilbert Grosvenor
Charles F. Marbut
Bureau of Solla
Blue Triangle Center
N. H. Darton
Neil M Judd
Grosvenor
Washington
Europe
Cicero
Ben Jonson
Nevin M. Fenneman
Association
Darton
Judd
North America
Egypt
Culuilco
Mexico
B. C
Pueblo Bonita
William M. Hass
Wallace
W. Atwood
University of Minnesota
Kentucky Mountains
W. D. Collins
United States
A. E. Waller
Miami Conservancy
Richard Hartshorne
G. B. Roorbac
New England
Died Bowie and related obituaries in December 1924
Obituary notices list Richard Somber Vest husband of Leon Bowie and others, including Annie OBrien, Major Charles B. Cooke, and Robert C. Lyddane, with details on residences, service dates, churches, and interment plans across Washington and nearby areas.
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Bowie
Carfehl
Richard
Vest
Leon Hunter Bowie
Nathaniel M
Ben
Bowie Evelyn B Mackall
Helen B
Norris
Joan FM
Corpe Calvert Bowie
Spreyer
Stephens Eplucipa
Hock Creek
Trey Boyne
Annie Obrien
Matthew of Borne
Nireet
Church of the Holy Comforter
Mount Olivet
Cooke
Austin Tex
Charles B. Cooke
Hianche Williams Cooke
Arlingtom
Providence Hospital
Robert C
Alice Moran
Lyddane
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
Masa
At & O'Clock
Tatermant
Olivet
Steele
Decker
Howard W
George M O
Georgia A Steele
Atreet
Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Moon and Mars Weather Dwellers Face Extreme Conditions
Reports from a meeting of the American Physical Association note Moon surface temperatures vary from about 4000 degrees on the sunlit side to 140 below zero at night. Dr. Dobrentz and Dr. Coblentz warn that any human presence would require underground shelter, with boiling point conditions on the sunlit side and extreme cold on the shaded side.
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Mars
W. W. Dobrentz
Bureau of Standards
American Physical Association
Coblentz
Dr. Coblentz
Obituary for Louis H Gebhard artist and poet
Obituary recalls Louis H Gebhard as a gifted artist and poet whose sudden death brought deep regret. He was a portrait and nature painter praised by critics, a man of intellect and modesty with broad charity, born December 31 and reportedly died in 1934.
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Gebhard
Louis H Gebhard
Use Of Metric System In America Predicted
High officials and foreign diplomats attended the Metric association meeting at the Willard. The group urged Congress to adopt the metric system and sent resolutions to Britain’s parliament. Officers named include Dr George F Kunz president and Arthur E Kennelly first vice president with other leaders elected.
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Metric Association
Willard
George F. Kunz
A. H. Vestal
Treasury, Labor and Agriculture Departments
Bureau of Standards
Association
Congress
Great Britain
Arthur E. Kennelly
Theodore H. Miller
William Jay Scheiffelin
Howard Richards
Frederic L. Roberts
New Grade of Copper Revealed to Scientists
Dr. W. P. Davey of General Electric announced a new copper grade capable of transmitting 13 percent more current. The breakthrough used large single copper crystals that are too delicate for commercial manufacture, but seen as a scientific achievement at the scientist meeting.
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W. P. Davey
General Electric Company
Bocher Prize Awarded To Two Mathematicians
Prof. E. T. Bell of the University of Washington and H. Lefschetz of the University of Kansas receive the Maxine Bocher prize from the American Mathematical Society amid AAAS meetings. Bell earned for Arithmetical Paraphrase, Lefschetz for Surgeon Numerical Invariants of Algebraic Varieties. George D. Birkhoff named president, Griffith C. Evans vice president.
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E. T. Bell
University of Washington
Lefschetz
George D. Birkhoff
Harvard University
Veblen
Griffith C. Evans
Rice Institute
Houston
Tex
Bryan Evolution Views Attacked by Scientists
Dr Edward L Rice, retiring vice president of the zoological section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, challenged William Jennings Bryan on evolution at a meeting. He contrasted Bryan's biblical approach with Darwinian method, urging more scientific religious alignment. Bryan was not present.
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Bryan
Edward L. Rice
Zoological Section
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Ohio Wesleyan University
Darwin
Rice
M. W. Ball
Warren
Barnett Sure
University of Arkansas
Sure
Robert M. Yarkes
Psychological Institute of Yale
L. J. O'Rourke
The
United States Civil Service Commission
Tests to Determine Drunkenness Listed Tests
H L Hollingsworth of Columbia University outlined three tests to determine drunkenness at a sectional science meeting. He ranked measurement as most accurate, followed by introspective reports and witness observation, warning against treating rough observations as definitive scientific verdicts.
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H. L. Hollingsworth
Columbia University
Hollingsworth
Countries able to use gold standard says expert
Maj. J R Bellerby of the international labor office says most nations have enough gold to resume the gold standard if not returning gold to circulation. He told a joint meeting of the American Economic Association and the American Association for Labor Legislation in Chicago.
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Chicago
A. P
Maj
J. R. Bellerby
International Labor Office
Geneva
Switzerland
Maj. Bellerby
American Economic Association
American Association For Labor Legislation
United States
America
Capital Geologists Elected by Society
Ithaca N Y Dec 30 Pret William B Scott of Princeton University has been elected President of the Geological Society of America at the thirty seventh annual convention at Cornell University. Other officers named include Second vice president Marius R Campbell Washington DC treasurer Edward B Matthews Baltimore MD and national research council representative Clarence N Fenner Washington DC David White formerly of the United States Geological Survey spoke on the projected oceanographic investigation.
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Ithaca
N. Y
William B. Scott
Princeton University
Geological Society of America
Cornell University
Marius R. Campbell
Washington, D. C
Edward B. Matthews
Beltimore
National Research Council
Clarence N. Fenner
Washington
D. C
David White
United States Geological Survey
Bills Track School Attendance and Census Expansion
A proposed law would require an accurate daily attendance record for public, private, and parochial schools and establish a census for ages three to eighteen. Currently no school attendance record exists in the District, and no census is taken. The measure passed the Senate last Congress but stalled in the House amid a legislative jam.
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Senato
Superintendent of Schools
Board of Education
Commissioners
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission
Senate approves Potomac bridge plan with parkway survey
Congress moves a long debated Potomac bridge project with park improvements on Columbia Island and the Virginia shore. The bill commissions a survey to connect Civil War forts into a continuous parkway, naming many forts and batteries and detailing land needs and closeable streets.
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Potomac River
Congress
Executive Departments
Senate
Columbia Island
Virginia
Lincoln Memorial
Fort Greble
Fort Lincoln
Fort Carroll
Battery Ricketts
Fort Stanton
Fort Wagner
Fort Baker
Fort da
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