. Identifier: cu31924030622553 Title: History of the University of Michigan Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900 Demmon, Isaac Newton, 1842-1920 Subjects: University of Michigan Publisher: Ann Arbor : Published by the University Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: various parts of Peru, parti
. Identifier: cu31924030622553 Title: History of the University of Michigan Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900 Demmon, Isaac Newton, 1842-1920 Subjects: University of Michigan Publisher: Ann Arbor : Published by the University Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: various parts of Peru, particularly inthe line of ancient pottery and other relics of theaborigines. He then sailed for China, and visitedmany of the principal cities of that country. FromChina he went to the island of Formosa, where hespent some months, making several journeys amongthe savages of the interior. From Formosa heproceeded to the Philippines, where he made ex-tensive collections of birds, shells, and other naturalJ7 objects, many of them afterwards found to be newspecies. Thence he continued his journey toMalacca and the Dutch Moluccas, and finally re-turned home by way of the Suez Canal, London,and Liverpool, after an absence of some five 1875 he received the honorary degree of Doctorof Philosophy from the University, and the nextyear he began his work as a teacher, holding thefollowing positions in succession: Assistant Pro-fessor of Paleontology, 1876-1877; of Zoologyand Pateontology, from 1877 to 1879; Professorof Zoology and Curator of the Museum, from 1879 Text Appearing After Image: JOSEPH BEAL STEERE to 1881 ; and Professor of Zoology, from 1881 to1S94. In the latter year he resigned his chair andretired to a farm near Ann Arbor, where he hascontinued to reside. During his professorship hemade second journeys both to the Amazon and to the Phihppines for purposes of scientific explorationand discovery. The Beal-Steere collection in theMuseum, consisting of about 20,000 sp 84
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