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...second of a series of five entertainments at the Harvard Club of Boston Wednesday evenings at 8.30 o'clock will be given this evening at the club by Professor Hatlow Shapley, who will seats on the Origin of the Earth". Mr. Chapley Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy at the University and Director of the College Observatory...
That coal is the compressed and carbonized remains of prehistoric vegetation is known to everyone. Dr. John M. Macfarlane, Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that petroleum is the product of buried beds of organic matter derived from fish. He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish. Extensive zones of fish remains have been found throughout the northern hemisphere in the same rocks with rich bituminous oil deposits. Sometimes oil migrates long distances through porous...
...Knowledge of the origin and location of fish deposit beds will enable man to discover new oil sources and to produce oil for commercial use more cheaply...
...establish a branch in New York, to engage solely in the acceptance business. The firm, organized in 1804, is one ot the most famous international houses in the world, and in London a leading security underwriter. It is also active in Continental Europe and South America. Although of German origin originally, Shroder & Co. has by virtue of its long British associations become practically a British firm in sympathies and outlook...
December 5.--"The Origin of the Earth." Professor Harlow Shapley...