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...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...
After visiting New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides during June and July in connection with his Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific, Professor W. M. Davis attended during August the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. At Sydney he spoke before the Section of Geography on the "Coast of New Caledonia" and before the Section of Geology on "A New Evidence for Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs...
...following casts of the Dramatic Club plays have been provisionally chosen: "THE BETTER WAY." Garcia de Paredes, S. A. Eliot, Jr., '13 Caledonia, T. M. Spelman '13 Louis, W. H. Heywood sC. Victorien, A. Z. Pyles '10 Paul, J. J. McGinley '13 Francois, W. Gleason '13 Bourges, J. A. Hovey uC. Maugendre, E. D. Smith '13 Louveau, M. T. Quigg '13 Vose, P. S. Abreu '11 Heredia, W. S. Henderson '12 THE NEW AGE." Henry Dickson, P. D. Smith '11 Jim Anderson, T. A. Jenckes '13 Ebe, B. Morrison '12 Mrs. Cochrane, Miss Hermine Foelske Anne Cochrane, Miss Elizabeth...
...Alexander McGaffin, Northfield, Mass; Latin Salutatory, C. A. Robinson, West Hebron, N. Y.; English Salutatory, Paul Erdman, Morristown, N. J.; C. M. Cartwright, Waynesville, O.; J. C. Coleman, Jr., Goshen, N. Y., A. T. Davis, East Orange, N. J., C. S. Havens, Tom's River, N. J., Donald MacColl, Caledonia, N. Y., E. J. Patterson, Plainfield, N. J., G. H. Wailes, Salisbury...