Word: british
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...
...best piece of characterization is done by J. F. Brice '99 as Lord Howe Poor. Under this title he supplies an amusing presentation of a British "chappie," with a voice that goes up, and a slothful sense of humor. He is at his best in the "Chumley Song...
...poems of Bacchylides, which were discovered in Egypt in January, 1897, have just been published by the British Museum. Bacchylides, who is thus brought to our notice, was a contemporary and rival of Pindar and was considered by the Alexandrian critics as one of the nine greatest Greek lyric poets. Unfortunately his writings have been completely lost for fourteen hundred years and our knowledge of him has been confined to a few fragments quoted by other writers. By the discovery of this papyrus, however, which dates from 50 B. C., twenty poems of 1070 lines have been restored...
...British Columbia...
Folk Lore Club. Dr. Franz Boaz of Columbia University will lecture under the auspices of the club on the "Growth of Indian Mythologies in British America." Peabody Museum...