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...latest of these voyageurs is Captain S. C. Bullock, M. C. who recently returned to London with highly diverting accounts of barking vultures, fishes which leap out of the water on to necks of their prey, and other amazing fauna. Although treated with a most irreverent levity by the daily press, the Captain laid his papers before the Royal Geographical Society. A suspicion still lingers that that learned body is having its leg pulled...
...tops of mountains in a continent which has become submerged in recent geological times. The chief scientific objectives of the trip are the study of: 1) the geology and the physiography of the islands in relation to the continental masses, past and present; 2) the continental sources of the fauna of the islands; 3) the variations that have grown up between the forms of life on the islands and similar species on the mainland; 4) the life history of their myriad bird inhabitants...
...Dawson will address the Biological Club on "The Effect of Temperature on Marine Fauna" in room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory at 4.15 this afternoon. The meeting is open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...Wednesday, November 7, when he will talk on "Excursions in Labrador." Dr. Townsend is a physician who became interested in the welfare of the people living in the hamlets along the northern coasts and Labrador. As he extended his travels he became very much interested in the flora and fauna of the Labrador country. He soon took to writing and his books, "Along the Labrador Coast." "A Labrador Spring," and "In Audubon's Labrador are authorities on the subject...
...which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that of Prof. Yves Delage, in France. Dr. Agassiz's program was revolutionary, one of his rules being the complete prohibition of textbooks in favor of first-hand contact with living material. A sort of scientific communism formed the atmosphere of the school...