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...Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids and the falls. He bought English estates (marrying once more) and turned country gentleman, social lion, patriarch of the Romantic period. With a constitution "stronger than steel," he lived until 1881 (reading Blake, studying Darwin), and finally had his ashes laid by Shelley's. "The man who best loved Shelley," would have been his chosen epitaph...
...Born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1857, Henry Fairfield Osborn was graduated in 1877 from the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton University in 1896). He accompanied Princeton explorations in the Far West, studied anatomy and histology in Manhattan, biology in Britain with Balfour and Huxley (meeting Darwin there), taught at Princeton until 1890, when he was chosen curator of vertebrate paleontology by the Museum he now heads. He has prosecuted extensive fossil explorations for the Museum, discovering and identifying many lost species (especially reptiles and pachyderms), and building up the largest collection of vertebrate fossils in the world. Among...
Died. Sir Francis Darwin, 77, distinguished botanist, originator of the theory that plants have an "unconscious memory," asker of the question "Do plants think?" thrice a widower, son of the famed Charles Darwin; at Cambridge, England...
...Darwin P. Kingsley...
...gathering of all ages that filled the lecture halls of the Hartley Institution. There were venerable gentlemen with fluffy white halos about their erudite pates, who recalled a day when the Association had been rent asunder by the disclosures of Darwin and his interpreter Huxley. There were shingled, short-skirted, plain-spoken young women to whom the vagaries of sex-cell chromosomes and a material conception of the universe were as fit and familar topics of conversation as were knitting and amateur meteorological observations to their grandmothers. There was the mooning notable who wandered, followed by his disciples...