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...SAFFORD, Leader.ARCTIC EXPEDITION.- The Arctic expedition under the supervision of Dr. F. A. Cook, an old explorer with Peary, will leave New York, June 30, returning the middle of September. A party is now forming from Harvard. All professors and students of geology and botany, etc., will have ample opportunity for scientific research. The hunting and fishing are unequalled. The temperature varies from 35 to 69 degrees, seldom going below freezing point. We shall be glad to furnish any information that may be desired...
ARCTIC EXPEDITION.- The Arctic expedition under the supervision of Dr. F. A. Cook, an old explorer with Peary, will leave New York, June 30, returning the middle of September. A party is now forming from Harvard. All professors and students of geology and botany, etc., will have ample opportunity for scientific research. The hunting and fishing are unequalled. The temperature varies from 35 to 69 degrees, seldom going below freezing point. We shall be glad to furnish any information that may be desired...
...most convenient entrance for those coming in carriages or holding reserved seat tickets for sections from J to O is from Jarvis street near the hospital. Admission tickets will admit to the outfield only at a special entrance between the Carey Building and the old Pudding Building...
Bullard, who has been out of the boat for several days, was put in at No. 2. Townsend was moved to No. 4, while L. Davis returned to his old position at No. 6. Fennessy was put on the other side of the boat at No. 7. Purdon, who has been at No. 7 for some time, was returned to bow, where he has rowed the whole year to within ten days...
...Yale corporation has accepted the resignation of James Dwight Dana, the oldest professor connected with the university. Professor Dana is one of the foremost American scientists, and is obliged by advanced age to abandon further work. He is eighty-one years old and graduated from Yale in the class of 1833. He returned to college as tutor and studied under Stillman the elder, and succeeded to a full professorship fifty years ago. Since then he has had full charge of the department of natural science. He has been honored by Harvard and other colleges in America and by German universities...