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...Pacific, has been placed in position in the Warren gallery at the Peabody Museum. The photographs are arranged in fourteen cases, each containing from eight to ten pictures and show the typical dress and customs of the natives of these regions. The photographs were taken by Alexander Agassiz, W. McM. Woodworth, A. G. Mayer, H. K. and W. E. Faulkner, and by members of the "Albatross" expedition...
Professor Alexander Agassiz, who has been absent from the University during the past year, arrived last Thursday in New York from Southampton, England. Professor Agassiz, with Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, his son, and H. B. Bigelow as assistants, started last October on an expedition to study the coral structure of the Maldive Islands, off the south coast of Ceylon. When the party reached England, Mr. Chamberlain gave Professor Agassiz letters to the Governor of Ceylon, and the governor, Sir West Ridgeway, gave him letters to the Sultan of the Maldives. In this way every facility possible for their investigations...
...annual reports of Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, keeper of the Zoological Museum and of the assistants and instructors in charge of its various departments have recently been published. They show that while the past year has, on the whole, been rather uneventful for the museum, yet there have been several important additions to the different collections, all of which are in excellent condition...
...expedition has been sent from the Agassiz Museum to the Maldive Islands, for the purpose of st dying and making a collection of the rate coral formations of the Indian Ocean. Mr. Agassiz fitted out the expedition and is conducting it in person, accompanied by W. McM. Woodworth. A steamer was chartered at Colombo, Ceylon, from the British India Company, to transport the expedition to the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where the Maldive Islands lie. The islands of the Indian Ocean are the only group of atolls remaining which Mr. Agassiz has not examined in his explorations...
...meeting of the St. Paul's Society last night, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, R. McM. Marsh '99; vice-president, W. C. Gerrish '99; secretary, E. Mallinckrodt 1900; treasurer, L. Luquier '99; chorister, C. E. Hill 1900; librarian, A. S. Gilman...