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...Philosophy, holder of an M.A. degree from Harvard in 1925, whose project will be studies of the philosophical works of George Berkeley, and research in European libraries and consultation with authorities; Dr. C. W. Dodge, curator of the Farlow Herbarium, who will complete a work on the Lichen Flora of Costa Rica; and Dr. C. C. Pratt, assistant professor of Psychology and tutor in the Division of Philosophy, who will continue an investigation of the expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods which are being developed by Gestalt psychologists in Germany...
William Boyce Thompson, copper millionaire and flora expert, was goodhumoredly sunning himself last week aboard his yacht off Miami. Less active than he used to be, he was pleased to learn that the balmy weather around Yonkers, N. Y., was enabling Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research to start spending $3,000,000 which Col. Thompson gave him last year for a 400-acre arboretum adjoining the institute...
...American committee, but its executive secretary is Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, F. R. G. S., second wife and widow of Carl Akeley, author of Carl Akeley's Africa, a fascinating chronicle. Chapter 19 of this volume contains a full discussion of the origin and location, flora and fauna, of the Pare National Albert...
...species which constitute this relic-flora must have lived right through the last glacial period where they are; and a study of the other regions of the Northern Hemisphere which were not invaded by the last ice-sheets has shown an exactly parallel situation. In these spots, then, we have relies of an ancient flora which in regions of very recent glaciation has been completely exterminated. From a purely evolutionary point of view, these old plants are particularly interesting because they are species with very sharply defined characteristics and are now so fixed in their fundamental characters that they show...
...camp in Virginia. In 1914 she founded Foxcroft. The War probably helped her quite as definitely as it helped U. S. munitions makers, though differently. People were not sending their daughters off to school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick...