Word: royale
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Simon Newcomb, senior professor of mathematics in the United States Navy, and professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, has just received his diploma of election as an honorary member of the Royal Institute of London...
Professor Newcomb of Johns Hopkins has been made a member of the Royal Academy of London...
...first number on the programme was the Overture "Ossian' by Niels W. Gade, one of the most gifted of living composers. The Overture won for him in the year 1841, a prize offered by the Copenhagen Musical Union, and after its first performance, he was immediately taken into royal favor and treated with the greatest distinction. Scenes from the tales of the old bards, of peace and war suggest themselves to the bearer as he listens to the soft, melodious parts by the violins and the harsh discordant flare of the brass instruments...
...Coral Islands of the Pacific demand the subsidence which Darwin supposed took place? (Darwin: The structure and distribution of Coral reefs. Geological Society Journal XII, 1842, third edition; John Murray: Structure, origin and distribution of coral reefs and islands 1888, 8 mo. 12 pp. Royal Institute of Great Britain...
Prof. D. W. Whitney of Yale is an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society...