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...periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere of mysterious amity. Opening the sessions, its German chairman, Dr. Georg Martius, warmly clasped hands with not only Italian and Rumanian representatives, but also British and French. The cheerful group then shut themselves behind locked doors, and talked their problems over. When they came out, they handed reporters a communique all about their "spirit of reciprocal understanding and cooperation"-but not a word...
...Prof. Lanciani's delightful lectures on Roman Archaeology. His subject was the Tiber, etc. It is surprising to learn that almost one thousand volumes have been written about this famous river. As the Tiber is the great waterway from Rome to the Sea, it is natural that Ancus Martius, one of its early kings, should have founded Ostia Tiberina at the mouth of the river...
...While quite young he evinced a taste for scientific study, which he developed by attending the College of Lausanne, and the famous Medical School at Zurich, and afterward the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, where his teachers were such men as Tiedmann, Bischoff Leuckart, Schelling, Oken, Dollinger, Martius, and others of equal celebrity. At Munich he received the degree of M. D., at the age of nineteen, and in the same year the degree of Ph. D., at Erlangen. After the return of a scientific expedition to Brazil he was called upon by Martius to assist in compiling for publication...