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Arequipa, the site of the observations, is situated on the Mollendo railway, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet, and is the second largest city in Peru. It is here that all their principal instruments are located. A railroad leads from this city up into the Andes, six thousand feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular...
Besides the Thaw Fellowship, the museum has received gifts from various sources. These gifts have enabled the trustees to fit up the new rooms in the addition of 60x60 feet built last year. Without these gifts it would have been impossible to utilize the new space with the proceeds of the small building fund previously existing. Now a gift of $7,000 from Mrs. Susan C. Warren has met the difficulty to a considerable extent. $5,000 of this sum is to be used at once to fit up cases for specimens in one of the new halls. An arrangement...
...Yale rowing tank has been shortened four feet, and thus the men can set a faster stroke...
...greenhouses at the Harvard Botanic Garden there is a rare variety of the orchid family now in bloom. The magnificent plant, whose technical name is angraecum sequipedale, is a native of Madagascar where it is found growing upon large trees. In Madagascar it usually has a stem about four feet high; its leaves are a glossy green and are about a foot long. The blossom is nearly six inches in diameter, is very white, and has a spur from a foot to a foot and a half in length. It fragrance is very powerful and is peculiarly so at night...
...intended, while preserving the general character of the North Avenue gate, to make the gate in every respect subordinate, its principal posts representing in scale the dimensions of the smaller posts of the North Avenue gate. Seen from the Delta it will present a recessed entrance, about forty feet wide, flanked on the outer corners by piers twelve feet high and on the inner corners by piers of the same dimensions. The gateway itself will be of wrought iron, of a simple character, and about twelve feet in width, serving as one of the carriage approaches to the yard...