Word: professors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...funds the sum of $5,000, the gift of Miss Maria Whitney. The income of the money will be applied to the care and increase of the Whitney Library, the volumes of which were brought together in great part by Miss Whitney's brother, Josiah Dwight Whitney, Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology from...
Other important additions are: a series of spiders from Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant; several interesting memorials of William Dandridge Peck, of the class of 1782, America's first scientific entomologist and the University's first professor of natural history, received from his grand-daughter, Miss Mary D. Peck; a collection of mammals from Lower California and Central and Western China; a series of Icelandic birds, from Messrs. J. W. Hastings and L. J. deG. Milhau; a number of mammalian heads and horns and the mount of a male caribou from Dr. W. L. Smith M.'92; a specimen...
...department of geology and geography, Professor R. DeC. Ward '89 announces that the Bosch-Omori seismograph, or "tromometer," has been installed, but that, on account of difficulties experienced in the rusting of important wires which support the pendulum, the arrangements for measuring the exact time of earthquakes are unsatisfactory. It is hoped soon to obviate this difficulty...
...Professor J. B. Woodworth '94, now on the Shaler Memorial Expedition in South America, will spend the rainy season in Chile, between Valdivia and Valparaiso, in an investigation of shore-line changes...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Heinrich von Kleists Werke III. Die Hermannsschlacht und der Prinz von Homburg." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...