Word: memoir
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best References: Blair in Cong. Rec. Feb. 9, 1886, p. 12, 38; Memoir of Peabody Educational Fund...
...from strong, I have more especially been induced to do this as Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural history of the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at almost the same general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. In 1858 he sent me a memoir on this subject with a request that I would forward it to Sir Charles Lyell, who sent it to the Linnean Society, and it is published in the third volume of the journal of that society. Sir C. Lyell and Dr. Hooker, who both knew of my work, honored me by thinking...
...Hopkins prize for the best original memoir, invention, or discovery in connection with mathematics or physical or experimental science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding has been awarded to Lord Rayleigh, M. A., F. R. S., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Experimental Physics in the university, for his various important papers connected with the Theory of Vibrations, and particularly for his paper on the Theory of Resonance...
...Alexander Carlyle will, it is said, publish a memoir of her uncle after Froude's "Reminiscenses" have been completed. She hopes to remove the unpleasant picture which Froude's work gives Carlyle...
...Squees' Memoir? I wish you would...