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Below is given a list various gifts to the University received during the past year. This statement does not represent the total of the donations as certain items have not yet been made public. Mrs. Henry Draper (on account of Draper Memorial), $9,999.99 John Simpkins, 20,000.00 Harvard Club of New York (new boat house) 25,000.00 Anonymous (for use of Botanical Garden), 3,000.00 Miss Marian C. Jackson (towards the salary of are instructor in the History and Art of Teaching), 1,625.00 Messers. Storey and Putnam, trustees, (payment towards certain salaries in the Medical School...
...palaeontological department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology has lately been increased by the addition of the large coral collection made during the past twenty five years by Major William J. Davis of Louisville, Kentucky. This famous collection was purchased by Mr. Alexander Aggassiz, and given by him to the Museum. For size and beauty of preservation of its specimens no other collection equals...
...annual report of the University Observatory was made public by Professor E. C. Pickering yesterday morning. The report, in addition to reviewing the detailed work of the department for the past year, points out several of the more important requirements, in regard to the endowment and the present in efficient equipment of the observatory...
...report on the Zoological Laboratory, by Professor E. L. Mark, gives a detailed resume of the work done in the laboratory, during the past year, by the different classes and by some of the individual students. The report on the geological and geographical laboratories, written by Professors Shaler, Davis, Jackson and Ward, is, to an outsider, the most interesting chapter in the pamphlet. It contains accounts of the field work being done by the different classes, of the surveying and geological mapping of the Middlesex Fells Reservation and of the different explorations recently carried on by members of the department...
...playing rules were adopted, the most important of which is declaring the play a foul "when the goal keeper is checked by the stick or body." It was also decided not to award a championship banner, either to Columbia or Harvard but to declare no championship team for the past season...