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...future, said Mr. Clayton, the atmosphere will undoubtedly be used as a medium of travel. The flying machine without a gas bag, will be the most common vehicle of aerial travel, but the spherical balloon will hold its place for the pleasure-seeker...
...Henry Helm Clayton delivered a lecture on "My Balloon Trip from St. Louis to New Jersey and the Future of Aerial Navigation" in the Living Room of the Union last evening. The lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views of the balloons at the start of the international race, views of cities and fields, of mountain peaks and seas of clouds seen from the balloon and of flying machines without gas bags, which Mr. Clayton believes will be the future means of navigation...
...Henry Helm Clayton, meteorologist at the Blue Hill Observatory, will give an illustrated lecture on "My Balloon Trip from St. Louis to New Jersey and the Future of Aerial Navigation" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...following lectures will be given in the Living Room of the Union: December 3, "My Balloon Trip from St. Louis to New Jersey and the Future of Aerial Navigation," by Mr. Henry Helm Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory: December 10, Dr. Wilired T. Grenfell, on some phase of his hospital work in Labrador; December 16, "The Battle against Graft in the Cities," by Honorable William H. Langdon, District Attorney of San Francisco. These lectures will be at 8 o'clock and will be open only to members of the Union...
...very generous gift from Professor Thomas Kirk, of Wellington, New Zealand. Two immense logs of the famous rata or so called sycomore, of New Zealand, have just been safely brought to the University Museum. The seeds of the rata germinate in the forks of lofty trees, sending down aerial roots which reach the earth and draw therefrom an increased supply of mineral matter, while the young plant above sends out branches with foliage to appropriate from the air the other requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until this intruder actually crowds...