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Charles Watson Boise

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261: 225:. In 1926 he applied for a British patent (with W. R. Degenhardt) for a machine that could disintegrate clay and mix sand, cement and other materials. He received a patent in the US for the machine in 1929. 249: 260: 532: 240:, an Edwardian estate in Kent, in 1927. He was particularly fond of the gardens and built a new rock garden, camelia garden and bluebell dell. His experience with 542: 205:
After the war Boise established himself in London as a diamond mining consultant. In 1920 he made the first investigation of the diamond fields of the
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of an unknown species on July 17, 1959. It turned out to be the first known specimen of an early hominin species which she named
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diamond fields. He received promotion to Chief Engineer of the company and remained in the region throughout the
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The "Nutcracker Man" skull discovered by Mary Leakey and of a species that was named for Boise
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Varsity verse: A selection of undergraduate poetry written at the University of North Dakota
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in 1911, directing the exploration, mining and research operations at the company's
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after the expedition's sponsor. The species was later placed in the genus
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with P.B. Griffith in 1908. After graduation Boise found work with the
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where he developed an interest in literature, publishing
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where he spent his formative years. Boise attended the
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University Library, Special Collections & Archives
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S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science
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The United States in Africa – A Historical Dictionary
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The United States in Africa – A Historical Dictionary
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Boise financed an anthropological expedition led by
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Index

Lakota, North Dakota
Kent
University of North Dakota
Forminière
Lakota, North Dakota
Hope
University of North Dakota
Santa Rita Mining Company
New Mexico
Forminière
Belgian Congo
Kasai
First World War
German South West Africa
South African Mining Journal
Griqualand West
Mining Magazine
Gold Coast
Consolidated African Selection Trust
Sierra Leone
Northern Rhodesia
Rhodesian Selection Trust
Emmetts Garden
malaria
mosquitos
National Trust

Louis Leakey
Olduvai Gorge
Tanzania

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