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...Hermann August Hagen, who since 1867 has been professor of entomology, died at his home on Putnam Avenue at four o'clock yesterday morning. Dr. Hagen was born in Konigsberg, Eastern Prussia, May 30, 1817. In 1867 he was invited by Professor Louis Agassiz to take charge of the entomological department in the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology. Dr. Hagen was every-where recognized as one of the most distinguished authorities on entomology. Funeral services will be held at his house, No. 11 Putnam avenue, at 3 p. m. The pall bearers will be Professors Goodwin, Cooke, Toy, Shaler, Farlow...
Notes.- Kant was born in 1724; received his appointment as Professor in the university of his native city, Konigsberg (in far eastern Prussia) in 1770; published the "Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781; published his other principal works between this year and 1793; and died in 1804. The best English translation of the Critique is that by Max Muller. The translation in Bohn's Library, by Meiklejohn, is now regarded as superseded. Wallace's "Kant" in Blackwood's Philosophical Library (Edinburgh and Philadelphia, 1882), Edward Caird's "Critical Philosophy of Immanual Kant" (2d. ed., New York, Macmillan...
...colleges; British Museum, 1, 500,000; Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University, 147,000; Frieburg University, 270,000; Giessen University, 160,000; Gottingen, 400,000; Halle University, 220,000; Heidelberg, 300,000; Jena, 180,000; Kiel, 180,000; Konigsberg, 184,000; Leipsic, 600,000; Munich University, 322,000; Tubingen, 235,000; Wurzburg, 300,000; Vienna, 271,000. Italy has seven university libraries each exceeding 100,000 volumes; and Russia has five. In America, Amherst has 42,000; Ann Arbor, 40,000; Johns Hopkins, 12,000; Bowdoin, 37,000; Harvard...