Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...collection of tropical fruits obtained for the most part during the various expeditions under the auspices of the Agassiz Museum is now nearly arranged and ready for exhibition in the Economic room. One of the most attractive features of the present exhibit is a collection illustrating the narcotics and stimulants used by different races. Here are characteristic specimens of Kava, of the South Sea, Betel of India, Mate, or Paraguayan tea, Coca of Peru, Opium of Turkey...
...Elizabeth Agassiz, and Professors Norton, Goodwin, Goodale and Byerly, spoke in favor of the petition. They agreed in saying that there can be no valid objection on the ground of insufficient endowment, and that the honor of the college is pledged to the support of the Annex...
...Laguerre's." Subscriptions of one dollar for each ticket, (twenty-five cents extra for a reserved seat), may be sent to Mr. L. R. Pearson, 42 Brattle street. Due notice will be given of when and where to secure reserved seats. The patronesses will be Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Benjamin Vaughan, Mrs. N. S. Shaler, Mrs. Oliver W. Huntington, Miss Longfellow, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. R. H. Dana, Mrs. Ole Bull, Mrs. H. N. Wheeler, Miss E. H. Houghton and Mrs. J. G. Thorp...
...performance in Cambridge will be under the patronage of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Richard H. Dana, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. W. W. Goodwin, Mrs. J. P. Hopkinson, Miss Norton, Mrs. Edward C. Pickering, Mrs. William E. Russell, Mrs. F. C. de Sumichrast, Mrs. J. G. Thorp, Mrs. John Trowbridge, Mrs. H. N. Wheeler...
...formed the nucleus, and with Professor and Mrs. Greenough held their first formal meeting on January 14, 1879, and chose Miss Horsford and Miss Longfellow for their first associates. The desired number was completed early in the next month by the addition of Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Louis Agassiz, and Mrs. E. W. Gurney; and no time was lost in getting out the first circular, which was dated February 22. In spite of the careful wording of this, it was understood by many, as it has so often been understood since, that Harvard College was to be opened...