Word: british
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...employment of Mr. F. S. Matthews as artist. The Herbarium has recently received from the Botanical Museum at Copenhagen, by exchange, a valuable collection of 300 specimens, chiefly species of northern Europe and Iceland. Another collection, comprising about 280 plants of eastern Quebec and the Rocky Mountains of British America, has lately been received in continuation of exchanges from the Geological Survey Department of Canada...
Among the speakers at the convention will be the following: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador; Bishop J. M. Thoourn, of India; Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Robert E. Speer and John R. Mott, of New York; Sir Algernon Coote, President Hibernian Missionary Society; Hon. S. B. Capen, President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Bishops Galloway, of Mississippi and McDowell, of Chicago; Mr. Robert R. Gailey, of Tientsin, China; and Dr. Karl Fries, Chairman World's Student Christian Federation, Stockholm, Sweden...
...instructor in economics. This prize of $500 is offered for the best thesis, embodying the results of original investigation, upon some subject in the field of economics. The subject of Mr. Price's thesis was "English Patents of Monopoly," information concerning which the author obtained from documents in the British Record Office, in London...
...dozen or more elaborate catalogues, publications of the British Museum, have been placed in the library. From the Library of Congress the Catalogue of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection of Engravings, and the American Library Association Catalogue, have been received; from Mr. Francis Bullard '86, a Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of James McNeil Whistler, and a Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner, held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; from the trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, several Catalogues of Exhibitions held in the Print Department...
...information about the physical, mental and moral conditions and needs of all the races of the world, and to stimulate interest in all forms of missionary activity. This federation is made up of national student organizations such as the American and Canadian Student Young Men's Christian Associations, the British College Christian Union, the Australasian Student Christian Union, and similar organizations in many other countries. The convention will be attended by 3,000 delegates from about 500 universities, colleges and seminaries. The speakers will include missionaries from about forty mission fields, men from the government service of the United States...