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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Pennsylvania has received a gift of about 8250,000 from Gen. Isaac J. Wistar to build and endow a museum of anatomy and biology. This museum will be in memory of Dr. Caspar Wistar, whose oldest living descendant will always be a member of the Board of Trustees...
...Gen. I. T. Wistor has given the U. of P. $100,000 for a museum...
...article by Capt. E. S. Godfrey, one of General Custer's troop commanders, on the massacre of the Little Big Horn, "Custer's Last Battle." The author advances a new theory with regard to Custer's movements. The article is followed by a critical review of the campaign by Gen. Fry. Dr. Wier Mitchell has his second instalment of Characteristics and Cole's "Old Masters" series is continued. The poetry of the number is unusually interesting, Mr. Aldrich contributing five short poems...
Best general references: Speeches of Allen, Lodge, and Gen. Hoar, September and October...
Other interesting numbers are the first installment of Gen. Butler's autobiography in which he tells of his ancestry and his boyhood, and an illustrated article on the "Public Libraries of Massachusetts...