Word: royale
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Major Darwin, the fourth son of the celebrated Charles Darwin, was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, entering the Royal Engineers in 1871. He was made a major in 1889 and retired in 1890. He has served on many scientific expeditions, including the Transit of Venus Expedition in 1874 to 1882. Among the important books written by Major Darwin are "Bimetallism, "Municipal Trade...
Under the auspices of the Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft, Professor Heinrich Kraeger, of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts at Dusseldorf, will deliver an illustrated lecture in German on "The Life Work of Arnold Bocklin," in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum tonight at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...Sullen Lovers," 1690, and "Humorists," 1691. From English dealers the Library has lately bought with the same gift the following plays: Massinger's "Great Duke of Florence," 1636, and "City Madame," 1659; Shirley's "Changes," 1632, "Triumph of Peace," 1633, "Traytor," 1635, "Gamester," 1637, "Grateful Servant," 1637 and 1655, "Royal Master," 1638, "Maid's Revenge," 1639, "Constant Maid," 1640, "Humorous Courtier," 1640, and "Brothers," 1652; and the "Mall," 1674, a play attributed to Dryden. The latter, together, with the "Hind and the Panther," 1687, also lately bought, gives the Library an almost complete series of the first editions...
Major Darwin is a well-known writer on subjects of Political Economy and has written books on Bimetallism and Municipal Trading. He has served as major with the Royal Engineers in England and has acted as lecturer in some of the military engineering schools there...
...Thompson-Seton spent his early life in the woods of Canada and on the Western plains where he made an especial study of nature. He is a graduate of the Toronto Collegiate Institute and the Royal Academy, London, and is the official naturalist to the government of Manitoba. Among his best-known books are "Wild Animals I Have Known," "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," "The Biography of a Grizzly," and "Lives of the Hunted...