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...celebration of the tercentenary of the founding of Edinburgh University began last Tuesday. The exercises were attended by a large number of distinguished guests, among whom was Mr. James Russell Lowell, who represents Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the Smithsonian Institute...
...Philosophical Club has lately received an invoice of books from Metz, Germany, through the courtesy of the Smithsonian institution...
...Transcript is responsible for the statement that "Yale has got the Smithsonian Institution Government fixed again in her interest as against Harvard's." What this dark hint may mean we cannot fathom. That there has been any active contest between the scientific professors of Yale and of Harvard for the control of the Smithsonian Institute, as this item would imply, is certainly a matter of news to the majority. Why Harvard should wish such control it is not easy to see. No, the Transcript is engaged in a very reprehensible business in fomenting jealousy between Yale and Harvard by dropping...
...nominations made by Speaker Carlisle for the positions of regents of the Smithsonian Institute include the president of West Virginia University and one of the fellows of Yale College...
...been requested to co-operate with it in the United States, by receiving and distributing in this country the telegraphic information sent from Kiel, and by forwarding to Kiel by telegraph any similar information of importance collected from American astronomers. By the courtesy of Prof. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the function hitherto performed by the institution, of collecting and transmitting announcements of discovery, has been transferred to the Harvard College Observatory. American astronomers are requested to send to the "Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.," telegraphic information of discoveries of comets, asteroids, or phenomena of any kind requiring immediate...