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...views to be taken of the former positions of the continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida could not be explained by the "subsidence theory" of Darwin, but no other explanation could be given at that time. Professor Agassiz has arrived at a rational and satisfactory explanation of its distinctive peculiarities. Great stress is laid upon the various changes of the ocean currents, and on the importance of the transportion of pelagic food by currents in controlling...
There will be an auction on Wednesday, June 6, at 2 p. m., at the New Divinity School Library, of a student's collection of about 250 volumes in fine condition, containing works of Shakespeare, Montaigne, Plutarch, (Plato), (Jowett), Longfellow, Emerson, Browning, "George Eliot," Darwin, etc. Also English, French and German dictionaries; and many other works of interest, among them Emerson's "Woody Plants of Massachusetts," Johnson's "Oriental Religions" (Persia and China). William's "Indian Wisdom," Julius Sachs' Text-book of Botany, etc. All must be sold. Terms cash. Books may be seen on Monday and Tuesday, June...
...Joseph Cook, the eminent lecturer, recently made the following comparison regarding the religious views of three of the most distinguished scientists of this century-Dr. Asa Gray, Darwin and Huxley. It will doubtless be of interest to all from the fact that Dr. Gray was, before his death, so intimately connected with all religious movements in the college...
Only a short time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight...
...years he has planted the seeds and borne almost single-banded the burden of the botanical harvest. It would be difficult to point to any other scientific man, with the single exception of Charles Darwin, who has in his own department of learning so entirely impressed himself upon the intellectual growth of a nation. No greater void in the scientific world has been made since the death of Louis Agassiz, the naturalist...