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...special meetings of the Geological Conference will be held next week on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, November 14 and 16, at 4.30 o'clock, in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum. At both of these meetings Sir. Jonhn Murray, the distinguished oceanographer of Edinburgh, Scotland, will speak on "Problems in Oceanography." The speaker was a member of the Challenger Exploring Expedition, sent out by Great Britain from 1873 to 1876, and has in subsequent years been one of the chief editors of the great series of scientific monographs in which the result of that expedition have been published...
...Osler graduated from McGill University in 1872, and has been successively professor of medicine at McGill and the University of Pennsylvania, and since 1889 at Johns Hopkins. He holds the degree of LL.D. from McGill, Yale, and the University of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and is a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal College of Physicians, London. He is the foremost authority on internal medicine in this country, and his work on "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" is the standard text-book on the subject in the English language...
...Munro, a Scotchman, received an A. M. from Queon's University, Ontario, in 1896. The following year he was a graduate student in government at the University of Edinburgh. In 1899 he received an A.M. from Harvard, and in 1900 a doctor's degree. He is at present an assistant professor of history at Williams...
Professor Samuel Henry Butcher, LL.D., lately Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, will give the first of his series of six lectures on "The Originality of Greece" in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject tonight will be "Greece and Israel." These lectures were provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane...
...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. From 1882 until the past winter he was professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. Dr. Butcher is well known as a writer for his prose translation with Mr. Andrew Lang of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...