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...meeting of the Botanical Club in the University Museum this evening will be addressed by Mr. A. S. Hitchock of the Shaw School of Botany, in St. Louis, on "Flora of the West Indies," and by Professor D. P. Penhallow, of McGill University, Montreal, on "Some Fossil Plants...
Professor Penhallow, of McGice College Montreal, will speak to the Botanical Club on Monday evening on "Some Fossil Plants...
...Menelaus and Helen in Sparta did not vie with the luxury of Mycenae. In some tombs opened at Mycenae by Dr. Schlieman in 1876, were found numerous coins and gold and silver vessels of great value. One tomb containing the body of a man which had become a fossil, contained gold plate and coins which weighed 100 pounds and whose value was $25,000. Dr. Schlieman opened in all 6 tombs and found many valuable relics of gold, silver and bronze. These tombs are all thought to belong to the mythical age before the Dorian invasion of the Peloponnesus. Tiryns...
...Agassiz "Fossil Fishes...
...expedition will be under the charge of Professor Scott, and will be limited in number to eight men, these to be chosen by competitive examination from the upper classes. There will probably be about twenty men take the examination. The object of the expedition is, primarily, the collection of fossil skeletons for the museum, and incidentally, the gathering of specimens pertaining to other branches of science. Professor Scott has already made five trips to the West for a similar purpose...