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...John Murray is a well-known English naturalist and oceanographer. In 1872 be was appointed one of the naturalists on the famous "Challenger" expedition, which made scientific explorations in the Atlantic, Southern, and Pacific Oceans under the direction of the British Government. In May, 1873, the "Challenger" put in at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Sir John and Alexander Agassiz first became intimately associated. In the sorting and reporting of the collection made on the "Challenger" expedition, the two men were again connected, and since then, until Agassiz's death in 1910, their friendship was most intimate...
...John Murray is a noted naturalist and was one of the pioneers of the famous "Challenger" expedition. It was during the course of this expedition that he first met Alexander Agassiz...
...sons. Versatile in achievement, as in interests, he left upon his many activities the stamp of genius. He contributed greatly to the advancement of science by his illuminative studies and his extensive deep-sea exploration, as well as by organizing and supporting the scientific inquiries of others. Foremost as naturalist and comparative zoologist, he was versed in anthropology and trained in engineering. But whatever line of precise thinking he took up, he brought to it abilities of the first order...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Dr. Muck, will give the second of the series of six concerts in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The program, which will be in memory of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, widow of the famous naturalist, will be as follows: Beethoven, Andante from Symphony No. 7; Schumann, Overture to "Genoveva"; D'Indy, "Wallenstein" Trilogy...
Major Leonard Darwin of London, son of the great naturalist and economist, will deliver the second of his series of lectures on "Municipal Ownership," in Emerson Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of this lecture will be "English Municipal Statistics. The Probability of Profit Making by Municipal Ownership. Municipal Management." The lecture will be open to the public...