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...Barlow died in New York on Saturday last. He was born in 1834, and was graduated from Harvard in 1855, being a member of the class in which Alexander Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, and Robert Treat Paine graduated. After graduating he studied law in the office of W. C. Noyes, New York, and began practice in that city. For a time he was on the Tribune staff. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general...
...long-promised "Life of Agassiz," by Jules Marcou, is at last announced for immediate publication. M. Marcou is the only surviving European naturalist who came with Agassiz to this country, and he was closely associated with him both in Europe and America as pupil, assistant and friend. The book brings out very clearly the identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts...
...Cambridge, performance will be under the patronage of Mrs. C. W. Eliot, Mrs. L. Agassiz, Mrs. G. P. Baker, Mrs. L. B. R. Briggs, Mrs. L. Carr, Mrs. M. Emery, Mrs. W. W. Goodwin, Mrs. J. P. Hopkinson, Miss Horsford, Mrs. C. E. Hubbard, Miss Irwin, Mrs. W. B. King, Miss Longfellow, Mrs. F. G. Peabody, Mrs. C. E. Pickering, Mrs. W. E. Russell, Mrs. N. S. Shaler, Mrs. De Sumichrast, Mrs. J. G. Thorp, Mrs. H. N. Wheeler, Mrs. J. W. White...
...fund of more than $6,000, contributed by friends during Mrs. Agassiz's absence in Europe, is given to Redcliffe on her return, entirely without conditions, for the establishing of a scholarship to be called the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship...
Radcliffe College will begin its fall term today. There is no change among the officials. Miss Louise Agassiz is president, Miss Agnes Irwin dean, Arthur Gilman regent, and Miss Mary Coe Secretary. Radcliffe had 290 students last year; more than 300 are assured for this. There has been purchased what is called Munroe Place, near by. In this there will be meeting rooms for Radcliffe societies, perhaps a recitation room or two, and an office to be used as a branch by the Harvard Cooperative Society...