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Frans Verdoorn, formerly of Leiden, Holland, well known hepatieologist who has been editor and publisher of the Review of Bryology and Chronica Botanica, has been appointed Honorary Research Associate in Bryology at the Farlow Herbarium...
...their country with little resistance and retired in good order from their first line of defense along the Ijssel River, still held their Grebbe Line (second defense) and Holland Water Lines (third). They had mopped up most of the parachutists in and around Amsterdam. They still had The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Helder. They still held, with British and French, the island province of Zeeland in the rivers' mouths. But further resistance did indeed seem hopeless. Whole towns were bombed off the map. The flood water had not risen above the main causeway roads. Dutch glumness and anger...
...back to a matter-of-fact business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later, "and not a penny...
...down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns and mosses had already established themselves. In 1905 a visitor found a large cycad (palmlike tree). Now the islands are covered with vegetation including tall trees, luxuriant...
Greetings in Latin are shown from the Papal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Hungarian Peter Paznany University, and the universities of Leiden, Dublin, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Upsala, Naples, Glasgow; and Carolina. For some the exhibit emphasizes the magnificent cases in which the messages were sent, many of them the finest examples of modern leatherworker's art, in red, deep brown, and blue, with gold seals embossed...