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...United States Fish Commission has lately received a letter from Mr. Alexander Agassiz which was written from Palette Harbor in the island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean. It was dated September...
...Agassiz left San Francisco on August 23 last, in the "Albatross," which had been loaned him by the government for the purpose of investigation. When about three hundred miles off Point Conception, he began to make soundings; and, of these, he made seventy-two before reaching Tahiti. By means of the soundings, the depths of the unexplored parts of the Pacific were ascertained and the basins located. Mr. Agassiz suggested in his letter that the deepest and largest of these basins, found in the Central Pacific, be named the "Moser Basin...
...Radcliffe under guidance of the history clubs of the two colleges. At 3.30, the President and Corporation of Radcliffe will give the ladies who attend the convention a tea in Fay House. Miss Alice Longfellow will then hold a reception at Craigie House. At the tea, Mrs. Louis Agassiz, president of Radcliffe, and Miss Longfellow will read papers, the former an "Address of Welcome," and the latter the "History of the Craigie House...
...Agassiz, has resigned from her official duties as President of Radcliffe, but will still nominally hold the position...
...Class Day exercises at Radcliffe College were held last night from 8 to 11 on the grounds surrounding Fay House. Receptions were held by Mrs. Agassiz, Miss Irwin, Miss Logfellow, Miss Lilian Wing, and the class officers. Fay House, Browne and Nichols' building, and the Vaughan House were well filled, and the grounds about were throged...