Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to the Agassiz museum is now nearly completed. The building will, when finished, be plenty large enough to accommodate the growing number of men taking natural history courses, and will also afford adequate space for the college to store its large collection of valuable historical relics. The interest in the different branches of natural history has increased enormously lately, and there is scarcely a man who goes through college without taking at least two courses in that study. The opportunities afforded in the most advanced courses is unexcelled, which, perhaps, accounts for the large number of men who come...
...National Academy of Sciences was founded by the United States Government in 1863. Louis Agassiz, the noted naturalist, being its chief instigator. At the society's origin only fifty members were admitted, now the limit is one hundred, the present membership being ninety-six, of whom twelve are from Harvard. The members of the society offer to investigate without recompense, any scientific questions which the government authorities may present to them...
...additions to the Agassiz and Peabody Museums, which were begun early last spring, have been pushed forward so rapidly during the past summer that work on the interior has commenced. The extension to the Peabody Museum is about forty feet deep and will be used principally for exhibition rooms. There are many archaeological specimens, now stored away or crowded in the used portion, which will be placed in the new part. The original building and addition form together two-fifths of the contemplated structure...
...Saturday evening, Oct. 13, at the club house, 11 West Twenty-second street. Francis O. French, recently elected president, presided. The meeting was terminated by a supper. Several new members were elected, among them H. Clifford Watson, the coach of last year's crew; Francis Peabody, jr.; George R. Agassiz, a son of the naturalist, and Judge Ward McAllister, jr., a son of Ward McAllister of New York...
...officers of the Annex are: Mrs, Louis Agassiz, president; Mr. Arthur Gilman, secretary; Miss Alice M. Longfellow, treasurer...