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...first American expedition was formed and it succeeded in unearthing some of the rarest of all the specimens of tablet-writing, and of the half-human half-beast figures of which there were found many in the excavations. At present a body of American gentlemen, of which Prof. Peters of the University of Pennsylvania is the head, is engaged in discoveries in Babylonia...
...last part of the lecture was taken up with Prof. Lyon's description of the views exhibited by the stereopticon. They consisted largely of photographs taken by the first American expedition of the mounds as excavated, showing the situation and structure of the most important temples and palaces which have been discovered...
...parts of the country, who shall supervise the work of their districts, and shall constitute an Advisory Board. An annual meeting will be held in December for the presentation of reports from secretary and treasurer and election of officers. The following officers were elected for the first year: President, Prof. F. J. Child, of Harvard; vice-president, J. M. Hart, of Cincinnati, Ohio; secretary, Prof. E. C. Sheldon, of Harvard, treasurer, C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard; editing committee, secretary and Messrs. Sylvester Palmer of Charleston. S. C., and G. L. Kittredge, of Harvard; executive committee, all officers already named...
...Prof. Holman of the Tech. has invented a calorimeter for the Harvard medical school...
...which he strove, have now been established. But although his works are not now of the same value as they were, their effect on German life will never cease. Although Herder's effect on German literature will be less lasting than Lessing's, still the nation is his debtor. Prof. Francke regretted that he was unable to more than briefly allude to Schiller and Goethe. In concluding the lecturer spoke of the wide gulf which separates the Germany of Goethe's time, when freedom was the watchword, from the present Germany, where that watch-word is authority...