Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After May 1st, the Agassiz Museum will be open on Sunday from...
...professorship. Temporary quarters were secured in Boylston Hall by the trustees of the fund, and some very valuable collections were obtained either by gift or purchase. Important among these was the gift of ancient Mexican pottery from Caleb Cushing. The archaeological and ethnological collections of the late Professor Agassiz, as well as those of the Boston Society of Natural History, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, were given to the Peabody Museum. A large and valuable collection has also been formed from explorations in different parts of America. The Museum is probably the most important in the country...
...number of volumes added during the year is 14.558. The tables, showing the use of the books at Gore Hall, afford emphatic evidence of the increasing value of the library to members of the university. The reports of the director of the Physical Laboratory and of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, of the Zoological Museum, are specially interesting. The treasurer's report occupies a fifth of the pamphlet. The income for the departments dependent upon the college proper was $268,260.76; expenses, $266,307,33. The Divinity School also has a surplus, $271. - 17; but the Law School has a deficit...
...meeting was held at the usual place yesterday morning, Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur in the election of E. L. Mark, Ph. D., Hervey professor of Anatomy, and W. L. Richardson, M. D., professor of Obstetrics. The board adopted a letter to Mr. Alexander Agassiz, expressing regret at his resignation from its membership. It was voted to print the President's report for 1884-85, also voted that it is advisable to establish a Peabody Professorship of Archaeology and Etymology in the University. The committee on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry presented its annual report...
Prof. Alexander Agassiz sailed on the Werra from New York to Bremen last week...