In late 1897 the art was auctioned in Paris, France, to raise funds to pay for the expedition.

She traveled to London during 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, hoping to find a buyer for her rubies and other jewels to raise funds for the university ; however, she was not able to sell them at that time.

In 1897, Bacon was also approached by a group which was organized with the intent to raise public and private funds to build a monument in Washington, DC to memorialize Abraham Lincoln.

Scott raised the gable ends to the original high pitch, but for lack of funds the roofs have not been raised ; writing in 1897 Palmer noted: " they still require roofs of corresponding pitch, a need both great and conspicuous ".

With the assistance of his funds, the town purchased the property from the Institute, and in 1897, began new library's construction with the demolition of Old South.

The Sundry Civil Appropriations Act of June 1897 ( Organic Act ) appropriated funds for management of the national forest reserves and mandated management goals.

Following an appeal for funds from the wider Presbyterian congregation, the college commissioned a new building designed by Henry Hare and built between 1897 – 1899.

In 1897 W. A. Shearer, the new headmaster of the upper school, found not only that the buildings were inadequate and defective, but also that R. S. Gregory, Vicar of Edmonton, wanted to close the school and use the funds for the Church of England elementary school, a proposal which aroused much opposition, especially from the Edmonton Urban District Council.

When the legislature finally approved an appropriation of additional funds in 1897, newly-elected Governor John Rogers vetoed it.

A contractor was appointed in 1897, but funds were not available and no work was started.

The physicist J. J. Thomson, through his work on cathode rays in 1897, discovered the electron, and concluded that they were a component of every atom.

With J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897, it became clear that atoms were not the smallest building blocks of nature, but were rather composite particles.

were able to inhibit bacterial growth, and even to cure bacterial infections in animal ( Ernest Duchesne in 1897 in his thesis " Contribution to the study of vital competition in micro-organisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes ", or also Clodomiro Picado Twight whose work at Institut Pasteur in 1923 on the inhibiting action of fungi of the " Penicillin sp " genre in the growth of staphylococci drew little interest from the direction of the Institut at the time ).

The family returned home once for the Lambeth Conference in 1897, and Bernard and his brother Harold were educated for a term at The King's School, Canterbury.

Begun in 1881, her journal ends in 1897 when her artistic and intellectual energies were absorbed in scientific study and in efforts to publish her drawings.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

By 1905, 62 % of the members were industrial workers ( 3 % of the population in 1897 ).

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

In 1897 British physicist J. J. Thomson showed the rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, which was later named the electron.

The debate was resolved in 1897 when J. J. Thomson measured the mass of cathode rays, showing they were made of particles, but were around 1800 times lighter than the lightest atom, hydrogen.

Beatty then took command of Fateh between October 1897 and August 1898 when the gunboats were frequently in action advancing along the Nile ahead of the army.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

Films of acted reproductions of scenes from the Greco-Turkish war were made by Georges Méliès in 1897, and although sold separately, these were no doubt shown in continuous sequence by exhibitors.

The Vitascope and the Lumière Brothers ' Cinematograph were first presented in Japan in March 1897, and Lumière cameramen were the first to shoot films in Japan .< ref > Moving pictures, however, were not an entirely new experience for the Japanese because of their rich tradition of pre-cinematic devices such as gentō ( utsushi-e ) or the magic lantern.

Clark and W. Harrison Moore, who had contributed to the first draft of the constitution put before the 1897 Adelaide Convention and was Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, postulated that the letters patent and the royal instructions issued by Queen Victoria were unnecessary " or even of doubtful legality ".

They were held in 1887, 1894, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1911, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1930 and 1937.

Juventus were founded as Sport Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D ' Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later .< ref name =" JFC History ">

On November 24, 1897, French naval authorities found three Americans on Clipperton working for the American Guano Company, who had raised the American flag on the island.

11,, July 24, 1897 ), introduced by U. S. Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine, raised tariffs in United States to counteract the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which had lowered rates.

In 1897 of Norddeutscher Lloyd raised the Blue Riband to, and was followed by a succession of German record-breakers.

These victories dispelled the tarnish of the 1897 defeat, and raised Constantine to great popularity with the Greek people.

By 1897, it was clear the buildings being used were no longer suitable, and so £ 25, 000 was raised to build ' a very handsome school that would be enormous credit to the town and … so that it would answer its purpose for the next 100 years '.

His grandfather Karl von Weizsäcker was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg, and was ennobled in 1897 and raised to the hereditary title of Baron ( Freiherr ) in 1916.

He was posthumously raised to the rank of Emperor in 1899 by Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor, who had proclaimed the Korean Empire in 1897.

Yobitsugi was raised to town status on July 12, 1897, followed by Chikusa on February 13, 1902 and Aichi on December 10, 1904.

Tahara was raised to town status on October 3, 1892, followed by Okawa village on June 23, 1893 and Fukue on February 22, 1897.

Fukuoka merged the village of Shimono in 1897 and was raised to the rank of a town in 1966.

A second stone was raised by the new settlers but destroyed in 1897.

He was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness in 1897.

In 1894 the board raised money for a new school to accommodate 445 children, which opened in South Street in 1897.

He was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher in 1885 and further honoured when he was made Viscount Esher on his retirement in 1897.

Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Palestine, changed his name to Gershom Scholem ( Hebrew: גרשם שלום ) ( December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982 ), was a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany.

His grandfather was ennobled in 1897, and raised to the hereditary nobility with the title of Baron ( Freiherr ) in 1916.

Weizsäcker was born in Stuttgart to Karl Hugo von Weizsäcker, who would become Minister President ( Prime Minister ) of the Kingdom of Württemberg and raised to personal nobility in 1897, and Paula von Meibom.

Major-General John Coke CB ( 1806 – 1897 ) of the 10th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry was a soldier of the East India Company Army, who raised in 1849 the 1st Regiment of Punjab Infantry, renamed in 1903 55th Coke's Rifles ( Frontier Force ).

In August 1897, the Honey Brook division of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company laid off workers at its strip mines, cut the pay of the remaining employees, and raised fees for workers residing in the area's company towns.

His benefit match in 1897 raised 1000 pounds.