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...Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week the annual meetings of the National Academy of Sciences were held at New Haven, in North Sheffield Hall. All members of Yale University were invited to attend the meetings, at which papers on the following scientific subjects were read: "The Lunar Eclipse, July 22, 1888," by Prof. E. S. Holden; "A Finished Breed of Horses," by Prof. W. H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific School. This paper was particularly interesting and received much applause. The last paper of Tuesday's session was one by Prof. Gibbs of Yale, and Mr. H. E. Hare...
Political Economy 1. For Friday, Nov. 16, members of this course will read Chapter IV of Book III in Mill's Political Economy. The 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock sections will meet as before...
...Wednesday the following papers were read: "The Zone Undertaking of the Astronomishce Gegellschaft," by Louis Boss, and "The Rainfall of the North Atlantic Ocean," by Prof. Elias Loomis of the Yale Academically Department...
...DARLING, Sec'y.MEMBERS of Political Economy 1 will read for Friday ch. IV. of Book III in Mill. The 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock sections will meet in U. 4. and U. 16 as usual...
...Darling contributes a short review of Mrs. Ward's "Robert Elsmere," and presents an estimate of the value of the novel. The article makes no pretense of being a criticism but it will be interesting to those who have not yet read the work, inasmuch as it is a clear exposition of the incidents, the characters and the motive of the story...