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PEARSON TALKS ON PERUVIAN ANDES

Graduate Student Will Describe Trip At Geographical Institute Today

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"Over the Andes to Peru" will be the subject of a free, public illustrated lecture tomorrow afternoon by Oliver P. Pearson, of Philadelphia, graduate student who traveled extensively in the Peruvian Andes and went down the Amazon River to its mouth. The lectures will be at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, at 4 o'clock.

The Geography Institute also announced other lectures, open to the public without charge, on various phases of modern geographical exploration. The schedule will be: February 24, "Black Head-hunters of the Pacific," Dr. Douglas L. Oliver, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard; March 10, "Ascent of Mount Bertha," Bradford Washburn; March 17, "Searching for the First Agriculturists," Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum; March 24, "Iceberg Ahead," William M. Rand, Jr.; April 14, "Australian Aborigines and Half-Castes," Joseph B. Birdsell; April 21, "Search for Sleeping Island," P. G. Downes; May 5, "Dominica, The Caribs' Last Stronghold," Walter H, Hodge; and May 19, "Alaska Indian Art," Frederick R Pleasants.

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