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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton Glee club will visit Florida during the Christmas vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/31/1889 | See Source »

Campbell, the Trinity tennis expert, won the City Gates trophy, in the Florida tournament. The Herald says he will probably win the American championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/20/1889 | See Source »

...publications of the Museum the past year have been very numerous. Among other works, Dr. Agassiz has given out two volumes on the "Cruise of the Blake," and one volume of Prof. Ernst Ehler's "Deep Sea Florida Annelids" has gone to press. This last work has been long expected, and is said to be the most exhaustive treatment of the subject yet written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agassiz Museum. | 2/6/1889 | See Source »

...furnish valuable information for the study of animal life in deep water, and the conclusions arrived at cause new views to be taken of the former positions of the continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida could not be explained by the "subsidence theory" of Darwin, but no other explanation could be given at that time. Professor Agassiz has arrived at a rational and satisfactory explanation of its distinctive peculiarities. Great stress is laid upon the various changes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Agassiz's New Book. | 6/15/1888 | See Source »

...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-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost 300 marks in Dresden, Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift to the Minnesota Historical Society. | 6/2/1888 | See Source »

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