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...collection of fossil plants in possesion of the Botanical Department ranks among the most valuable collections of this Kind in America. It is kept in one of the large rooms in the basement of the Botanical Museum, and is in charge of Dr. Robert T. Jackson. A few speciments have been disposed in the glass wall cases on the second floor, but the main collection is not on public exhibition...
...party made up of instructors and students from the Harvard Geological Department left Cambridge last Friday afternoon for Yale. Immediately upon their arrival at New Haven they were taken to the Peabody Museum and were shown some of the finest fossil specimens. In the evening Professor Penfield gave an address to the Harvard party at the Engineer's Club on "New Applications of the Stereographic Projection to Problems in Geography and Mineralogy." After the meeting Professor Penfield and a few officers of the Geological Department gave an informal reception...
...object of the trip, but will also visit the San Francisco mountains and the petrified forests of Arizona. Another Yale party is already on its way to the Canyon. The object of the expedition is mainly to study the geology of the Arizona regions and also to hunt for fossil remains...
...titles of two new books which Professor Shaler and Mr. J. B. Woodworth have collaborated in writing. Mr. Woodworth has also written a monograph on the structure and origin of the rocks in which the coals of Eastern Virginia are found. His report on "The Occurrence of Fossil Vertebrate Footprints in the Carboniferous Rocks of Massachusetts" is ready for publication...
...Eliot C. Lee. For arranging specimens of fossil plants in the Botanic Museum...