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...president and two professors of the University of Minnesota have been arrested for assault upon a student named Asa Paine. In company with a party of students upon a lark Paine was pursued by the defendants, and being closely pressed drew his revolver upon them. Whereupon Prof. Pike drew another and fired upon Paine, the ball taking effect in the thigh...
...Prof. Asa Gray, the renowned botanist, celebrated his seventieth birthday with his mental and physical powers in full vigor. The professor, in looking over an old herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...
...COMMITTEE consisting of Prof. Asa Gray, Prof. George L. Goodale, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz have issued a circular asking for $80,000 to place the Botanic Garden upon a "sufficient and independent foundation." $25,000 has already been subscribed: of this sum, Frederick S. Ames gave $5,000; John C. Phillips, $2,500; H. H. Hunewell $1,000; Miss Marion Hovey, $100; Alexander Agassiz, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $500; Quincy Shaw, $5,000; E. W. Hooper, $200; A. P. Chamberlain, $100; John Amory Lowell, $1,000; H. P. Kidder, $1,000; a conditional subscription...
...fifth edition of "Structural Botany," by Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard, has just been issued...
April 18, Prof. Asa Gray, "Forest Geography and Archaeology...