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...first excursion of the Student Volunteer Committee was conducted by Mr. Birtwell yesterday afternoon to the Municipal institutions at Deer Island, Boston Harbor. A limited number of invitations were sent out by the committee to men actively engaged in volunteer work, and fourteen men attended. The party took the boat, the J. Putnam Bradlee, to the island, and on their arrival they were received by Superintendent Gerrish. They were conducted over the House of Industry, the Truant School, and the Hospital by Assistant-Superintendent Perkins, who explained to the men the working of the various branches of the institution. After...
...PRESCOTT, Sec.HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.-There will be a meeting of the society this evening, March 1, at 7.45. The program will be: Mr. W. H. Phelps, Alligators; Mr. T. W. Vaughan, Fresh Water Mussels; Mr. W. S. Nickerson, Development of Teeth; Mr. M. Chamberlain, The Deer of North America...
...earlier age. In these instances, investigation has shown that the confusion was caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found, such as deer, tortoise, elk, rabbit and many others. It is probable that the human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones that were scattered about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also...
...where they derive all those innumerable blessings which come from home life. Not all go through the training schools; many are placed at once in country homes. The society has an officer which attends the court rooms daily, and by giving bail rescues "juvenile offenders" from a probation at Deer Island. A bureau of information is also established which sees that there are country homes ready, and takes charge of any cases that are reported. Sometimes families in the country adopt the children free of charge; but sometimes charges are made which the society has in a great measure...
...author's vivid imagination. On many of the maps animals are pictured supposed to show the species by which the region is especially characterized. On the plate representing New England, what is now Connecticut is occupied by two sickly rabbits, Western New York is given up to deer and on the St. Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper...