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...University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has conferred the degree of LL.D. upon Professor Alexander Agassiz...
Several gifts have been made by Dr. Agassiz and Dr. W. Mc M. Woodworth to the ethnological collection from the South Sea Islands at the Peabody Museum. The gifts from Dr. Agassiz consisted of a wooden model of a Fiji canoe, a cooking stove for use on canoes, and a very old Fiji bowl...
...canoe, about six feet long, complete in every detail, was made at the request of Dr. Agassiz; it is the model of a large Fiji outrigger working canoe, and is distinguished from a war canoe by the fact that the latter is made double instead of with an outrigger. The boat is caulked with gum, which is protected by strips of palm, and the various portions of the hull are fastened together by ropes of cocoanut fibre. All the cordage is made of this same fibre. The large lateen sail is made of strips of pandanas leaf, sewed together with...
Professor Agassiz is now abroad visiting his scientific friends and examining the museums of the different universities. He has been to Munich, Leipsic, Vienna, Prague and Berlin and before returning in April he will visit the Mediterranean coast, and will spend some time in England and Scotland...
...first being chosen from the first century of Harvard's existence, the second from the beginning up to the present time. The latter list was approved by the committee and will be sent immediately to the architects. The names are: John Adams 1755, James Russell Lowell 1838, Louis Agassiz, h. 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Joseph Warren 1759, Cotten Mather 1678, Joseph Story 1798, Benjamin Peirce 1829, Edward Everett 1811, Asa Gray h. 1844, Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College; Charles Summer 1830. The committee was empowered to submit ten more names to be added to the above list...