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April 27, Something about Crabs; Mr. J. S. Kingsley, editor of the "American Naturalist...
...trees on Boston Common are again labelled with their names, common and systematic, as was the case many years ago when Gould, the naturalist, was alive...
Professor Shaler delivered an intensely interesting lecture last evening to a full audience. So distinct, he said, are the fields of work of the theologian and the naturalist, that he had with difficulty found a topic of common interest-the Evolution of Altruism. Sympathy, the basis of altruism, seems a very natural thing, yet it is hard to explain. The lecturer asked his hearers to assume that man is descended from the lower animals in his body, and in some at least of his mental faculties. He then traced the gradations of altruistic qualities (those which are not based...
Having reached this step the study of altruism is outside the field of the naturalist. The lecture believed that the spirit of Christianity rests on these old altruistic motives; and that it also fosters them, towards fellow beings, and towards the Supreme Being...
Prof. Tittle, a prominent German naturalist, has paid the Agassiz Museum a great compliment in the following account, first published in Germany and translated for Science: "It is beyond question that the future development of geology and paleontology will be essentially influenced by America; but it seems to me, that, for zoology also, a model institution for the future, in many respects, has been created in the celebrated Agassiz museum in Cambridge, which probably will not be without influence on the development of museums of natural history in Europe. The genial founder of the 'Museum of comparative zoology...