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More than four hundred authors in the list given in the Bulletin are represented as having concerned themselves more or less with fossil insects...
...October number of the University Bulletin has just appeared, with the following table of contents : 1. Corporation and Overseer's Records. 2. Accessions to the Libraries. 3. A Bibliography of Fossil Insects. 4. Catalogue of the Lee MSS. 5. Maps in Petermann's Mittheilungen. 6. List of American Geological Writers, and, 7, University Notes. The records of the corporation and overseers published extend from April 10 to October 28. Besides the various votes accepting resignations and making appointments to offices of instruction, the following is a synopsis of the more important measures adopted...
...classed among the first schools of America, that boasts of its willingness to aid its pupils in the free and fearless discussion of all the problems that now occupy the attention of the learned world, cannot fail to bring home well-deserved derision and contempt to the fossil representatives of a past age and society...
...building, - the college building was really very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture of the founder of the College, - a red-faced...
...pictures of the Faculty that it has contained from month to month have been excellent photographs of fine-looking men. The local department is especially well sustained, and in the last number a bright letter from Vassar enables one not to be severe on a four-column article entitled "Fossil Bird-Tracks...