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...Nestor Antoine Papadopoulos, Constantinople, Turkey...
...great value of the specimens arises from the fact that most of them have passed through the hands of the late Professor Lesguerenux, who has been called the Nestor of Palacobotany in this country. Tweleve geologic llorizons are represented, the largest number of specimens being of the Carboniferous. Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. This latter gorup is chiefly made up of types from the collection of Heer, the eminent Swss pa aeontologist. Other specimens have been purchased with a portion of the Lee fund, among them a sereis of forty six choice slides of carboniferous plants, for microscopic study, prepared...
...younger than the corresponding class of to-day, were of course, "above the reproach of being magnificent animals," for those were halcyon days, when "boys began preparation for college younger," when "schools were not yet nurseries," and when students "liked books that made them think." (Dickens and De Quincey). Nestor's boast of the prowess of his youthful days is paralleled at last. Yes, the youth then were more mature and (individually) they wore Indian blankets, made by the Bay State Mills, in chapel; and there then prevailed "a high, keen, intellectual energy among us all." But why continue such...
Like the honeyed speech of Nestor, as the olden poet tells; 'Tis the mem'ry of its freedom in the halcyon days of yore Wafted from the fallen Venice, Hadria's mighty queen no more...