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...Treub, Director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java, will give an illustrated talk on "The Vegetation of Java" at a meeting of the Botanical Club, in Room 12 of the University Museum at 2.30 o'clock today. All men interested in Botany are invited...
...until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments have been repeated in other places with varying success...
...Gottingen. He returned after a year's absence and continued the study of law in an office and in the Law School. In 1862 he was commissioned first lieutenant and later captain of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. From 1863 to 1866 he was United States consul at Batavia, Java. Since then he has been interested in manufacturing and railroading...
...addition to the schools that I have mentioned. there is a school of oriental languages. This school is intended to make interpreters, and to instruct merchants or functionaries who are called to distant destinations. Courses are given in the following languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, the languages of Malay and Java, Armenian, modern Greek, Hindostani, Chinese, Japanese, and the language of Annam...
...scientists pretend that the redness is due to frozen moisture through which the sun refracts its rays, and Professor Proctor states that we may possibly be passing through a stratum of meteoric dust, or in other words pulverized meteors. The theory which has attracted most attention is that the Java earthquakes of last autumn raised such a cloud of mica dust that it ascended to a great height in the air and has been suspended there ever since. This theory is supported by Prof. Shaler. These and many other explanations have been advanced, but whatever the cause of this phenomenon...