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...Civil war, he was interested in the Planters' Insurance Company, Greensboro, Alabama. After coming North he was engaged in literary work with Dr. Henry Barnard of Hartford. In 1867 he went to California, and, shortly after, entered the service of the Geological Expedition for the exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. At first he was employed as one of the topographers, but on the resignation of Mr. W. W. Bailey, now of Providence, he became Botanist to the Survey. He examined the plants which were collected, first at New Haven in Professor Eaton's Herbarium, and afterwards at Cambridge. From...
...lesson was read from the concluding verses of the fortieth chapter of Isaiah and a short discourse was given...
Thursday noon at the close of his course of lectures in Chemistry A, Professor Cooke asked from the freshman class the privilege of indulging in a few personal reminiscences. It was the end of his fortieth annual course of lectures in Chemistry. In 1849, to the class of which President Eliot was a member, was given the first instruction in chemistry in any American college. At that time Professor Cooke was the sole lecturer and teacher in the department of chemistry, and the accommodations for carrying on the work were exceedingly limited. The lectures were given in the room...
This is Professor Lovering's fortieth year in the University...
...Quarterly" opens with an artotype of the five living founders of the society, and the first article is an exhaustive account of the foundation of the Greek letter societies by D. B. King. A poem by Edward Wells, entitled "Athene," follows and then the account of the Fortieth convention, held at Washington, January 5th and 6th, completes the main part of the number. The last-named article is interesting and instructive. Editorials, reviews and lists of new initiates to the Greek letter clubs close the number...