Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Wyman has established a museum of comparative anatomy; and Professor Agassiz has also a museum, of which the fish collection is superior to that of the British Museum or the Jardin des Plantes, owing to the immense labors of the professor in Brazil. Asa Gray is the Professor of Botany, and, as all botanists know, is the Hooker of the United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some...
Crucial situations in Spain, China and elsewhere in a war troubled world will be discussed during the three-day program of the fifteenth Foreign Affairs School which will open next Tuesday, January 19, at 2:30 o'clock in Agassiz House, Radcliffe College. The program is sponsored by the Massachusetts League of Women Vters, acting in cooperation with its Cambridge branch and Radcliffe College...
Attendance at the School is not restricted to League members, but is open to all interested persons up to the capacity of Agassiz House Theatre. Applications should be made to the Massachusetts League of Women Voters, 31 Mt. Vernon Street, up to the morning of January 19. Mrs. John H. Williams, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, is chairman of the ticket committee...
...five members whose six-year terms expire this June are George Russell Agassiz '89, Allston Burr '89, Dwight Parker Robinson '90, Frederick Winsor '93, and William Phillips...
Henry Augustus Ward was a zestful young scholar who studied at Williams and under the late great Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, at Cambridge. He later attended the School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with...