Word: noted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...collector. The collector must also be careful not to push leading questions so far - in case what is delivered is unintelligible or fragmentary - as to vitiate the spontaneous operation of memory, I mean, make the reciter fancy that something is remembered which has really been suggested. He ought to note any explanations offered by reciters, and to record those bits of narrative with which they may eke out an imperfect remembrance of the verse. The copy that has been taken should be read carefully to the reciter, to secure correctness, and it may happen, in this process, that something will...
DINAH (within). Another note...
...NOTE. - The whole work seems to be an attempt at something funny. You have not handled your subject well. The whole is quite improbable. - INSTRUCTOR...
...Just before I left to return to Paris, I received a short note from the Doctor, asking me if I would not kindly take charge of a lady friend of his who was going by the same train to Paris. Arrived at the station I found the Doctor had established his friend in a carriage, and was waiting to introduce me. After returning from buying my ticket I was surprised to find a most peculiar odor in the carriage, but the Doctor quickly explained that it was nothing but the odor of a strong dose his friend had been obliged...
...Natural History Society has offered three subjects for prize essays. The first is on the "Dis-semination of Seeds"; second, "Make a Collection of the Plants of one Family and note the Peculiarities of Station of each Plant"; third, "Character of Insects : Sub-orders." The prizes will be awarded, if any essays are deemed worthy of them, in January, 1881. They are : A first prize of $25 to the individual, and some seventy fossils, and ten geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize...