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...collection of 154 photographs of Eastern countries, taken by himself, has recently been placed on exhibition in the Periodical Room of the Union. The collection, which was exhibited from January 3 to 10 in the gallery of Messrs. Doll and Richards, Boston, contains interesting views in North India, Ceylon, the Nile countries, Morocco, China, Burma and a few in Europe and America...
Angarika H. Dharmapala, of Ceylon, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.45 o'clock about "Personal Experiences of a Buddhist Monk in India." The Dharmapala saw the poverty in India many years ago and became a monk in his endeavor to alleviate the suffering of the people. Ten years ago he came to this country as a delegate to a religious convention and since that time has devoted himself largely to a comparative study of life in India and America. He is one of the best known of Asiatic scholars who have come to this...
...University during the past year, arrived last Thursday in New York from Southampton, England. Professor Agassiz, with Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, his son, and H. B. Bigelow as assistants, started last October on an expedition to study the coral structure of the Maldive Islands, off the south coast of Ceylon. When the party reached England, Mr. Chamberlain gave Professor Agassiz letters to the Governor of Ceylon, and the governor, Sir West Ridgeway, gave him letters to the Sultan of the Maldives. In this way every facility possible for their investigations was assured...
...Agassiz Museum to the Maldive Islands, for the purpose of st dying and making a collection of the rate coral formations of the Indian Ocean. Mr. Agassiz fitted out the expedition and is conducting it in person, accompanied by W. McM. Woodworth. A steamer was chartered at Colombo, Ceylon, from the British India Company, to transport the expedition to the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where the Maldive Islands lie. The islands of the Indian Ocean are the only group of atolls remaining which Mr. Agassiz has not examined in his explorations for the study of coral formations...
...year 52 B. C. an embassy was sent from Ceylon to Rome. The embassy was intercepted in Lydia and it is therefore conjectured that the fables were spread in Asia Minor and from there into India. The embassy later proceeded to Rome and spread the fables there also. Proof of this exists in the parallelism between the various authors of fables who wrote at this time. A connection between the 7 Talmudic and Buddhist fables may be traced to this same embassy...