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Professor Davis has just returned from his trip to South Africa as a guest of the British Association for the Advancement of science. His journey covered over 20,000 miles and led through the most characteristic sections of the country, including the famous gold mines of the Rand at Johannesburg, the great diamond mines of Kimberley, the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi river, and the so-called Dwyka glacial conglomerate of Permian date, a sheet of unstratified clay, and boulders covering an area of about 200,000 square miles, some account of which will be given by Professor Davis...
...Sandys graphically described the homes of the Italian humanists--the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience in an imaginary journey through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones...
...party will then go to the petrified forest in Arizona, the Grand Canon, Los Angeles, Santa Catalina Island, the Yosemite Valley and will spend a day or two in San Francisco where they will visit the new anthropological museum of the University of California. From here they will journey north to Victoria by way of Portland and Seattle and will spend a few days in the Canadian Rockies. Here the party will break up about the last of August...
...this evening by Professor R. W. Willson, on "Simple Determinations of Latitude and Longitude," in Harvard Hall, at 8 o'clock. The object of this talk is to show the most elementary methods of using astronomical observations in marking out the path that has been followed on a long journey by sea or by land; the methods are such as any intelligent traveller may easily learn and employ. The necessary instruments will be shown and explained. The officers of the Club desire to state that the announcement of this talk in the Calendar two weeks...
Against this plan it was urged that the walk down to the Stadium would be unpleasant and would take too much time. Against this argument it was contended that the people who walk to Soldiers Field for athletic games might not be unwilling to undertake the journey, and that, if the exercises were held in the Stadium, saving would be made in the time now used in crowding in and out of the stands at the Statue. The other argument against the plan that the Stadium would be a less significant setting for the exercises than the Yard--was opposed...