Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV Belgica, it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Among its members were Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen, explorers who would later attempt the respective conquests of the North and South Poles.
1898 was the ninth season of County Championship cricket in England. Yorkshire won the championship for the second time in three years. It was an emphatic victory with a record of sixteen wins and seven draws in 26 games. Middlesex finished second after two wins over Kent in late August to improve five places on their 1897 finish. Derbyshire broke their streak of 22 Championship matches without victory by beating Hampshire in late May. As for individual performances, Surrey batsman Bobby Abel made 1800 runs for the second season in succession, one run shy of his own championship record in 1897.
The National Association Football League (NAFBL) was a semi-professional U.S. soccer league which operated between 1895 and 1898. The league was reconstituted in 1906 and continued to operate until 1921.
The DFB was formed 28 January 1900 in Leipzig. The commonly accepted number of founding clubs represented at the inaugural meeting is 86, but this number is uncertain. The vote held to establish the association was 64–22 in favour. Some delegates present represented more than one club, but may have voted only once. Other delegates present did not carry their club's authority to cast a ballot.
The Connecticut League, also known as the Connecticut State League, was a professional baseball association of teams in the state of Connecticut. The league began as offshoot of the original Connecticut State League, which dates back as far as 1884. In 1891, the Connecticut State League included the Ansonia Cuban Giants, a team made up of entirely African-American ballplayers, including future Hall of Famers Frank Grant and Sol White. In 1902, it was a Class D league with teams in eight cities. In 1905, the league became Class B, which lasted until 1913, when the league became the Eastern Association due to several teams outside of the state entering the league. Also a Class B league, it survived two more seasons, then folded after the 1914 season.
Franz Josef Maria Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms.
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1897 election and the 1900 election.
The East and Central Africa Medal, established in February 1899, was a British campaign medal awarded for minor military operations in the Uganda Protectorate and Southern Sudan between 1897 and 1899. Four separate clasps were issued.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 239 is a declaration on oath addressed to the "scribe of the Oxyrhynchite nome," written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated 19 September 66. Currently it is housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 14 October 1897 to the elections of 1 November 1900. From 1889 there were 95 seats in the Assembly.
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1899. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1898. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.
The Julaolinja were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
The second cabinet of Dimitrie A. Sturdza was the government of Romania from 31 March 1897 to 30 March 1899.
Frank B. Russell was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. Russell was Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Elizabeth Carleton and David Chandler Russell. He attended the University of Iowa, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1892 and Master of Science in 1895. He then attended Harvard University where he received Bachelor of Arts in 1896, Master of Arts in 1897 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1898. Previous to this collegiate course he had spent two and a half years as explorer alone in the far north of Canada and one year as a portrait painter. His first position as teacher was that of assistant in zoology at the University of Iowa in 1892. At Harvard he taught as assistant in anthropology from 1896 to 1897, and in 1897 was made instructor in anthropology. He became associate editor of The American Naturalist in 1897, and a member of its editorial board in 1899.