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...difficult to point to any other scientific man, with the single exception of Charles Darwin, who has in his own department of learning so entirely impressed himself upon the intellectual growth of a nation. No greater void in the scientific world has been made since the death of Louis Agassiz, the naturalist...
...Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry Lee, $1500 for the salary of an instructor in political economy; Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $4500 for prosecuting researches in stellar photography; Robert Waterston, $1000 for the library; Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, $2000 for salaries in the herbarium; Martin Brimmer, $2000; and John L. Gardner...
...Parker, a recent graduate of Harvard, is lecturing before the Agassiz Society of Boston upon "Evolution from a Theological Standpoint...
...lecture of last Monday night, Prof. Wright gave the results of his own researches for facts to work out the details of Prof. Agassiz's already proved Glacial Theory. He had himself located the southern boundary of the great ice sheet, which once covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines...
...Appleton's Coach. - K. M. Appleton, '84; W. C. Baylies, '84; G. R. Agassiz, '84; Dudley Winthrop, '83; O. W. Bird, '86; D. C. Clark, '86; A. V. French, '85; H. D. Robbins, '84; C. Bohlen, '88; E. Flagg, '87; G. B. Painter, '89; F. H. Morgan, '89; G. H. Norman, '89; M. Agassiz...