Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...collection of mammals from Lower California and Central and Western China; a series of Icelandic birds, from Messrs. J. W. Hastings and L. J. deG. Milhau; a number of mammalian heads and horns and the mount of a male caribou from Dr. W. L. Smith M.'92; a specimen of an African tortoise and two large monitors from the New York Zoological Society; and a series of Hawaiian corals from the American Museum of Natural History...
...survey of the North Italian Painters extends from Altichiero to Correggio, with a postscript on the Electics and the Teneloists. He analyzes with equal patience and skill the works of scores of lesser men. He seems to have overlooked nothing. And he brings all, down to the most modest specimen, into his system. Of chief interest to the American reader, who has not the pictures before him to refer to, are Mr. Berenson's generalizations--the pages in which he sets forth his main ideas, or sums up some really important master, like Montegna or Corrreggio. His remarks...
...University Library has lately received from the estate of D. H. Storer M.D. '25, through Miss H. M. Storer, a collection of 245 copper coins. Among the rarities in this collection are a fine specimen of Swedish plate money and a "Granby copper." The Granby coppers were struck by an ingenious blacksmith in Granby, Conn., in 1737, and, being made of unalloyed copper, quickly became worn, and are therefore now of the greatest rarity...
...always interested in the first number of a college magazine produced by a new board of editors: it usually indicates the character of later issues. To judge from the present specimen, readers of the Advocate for the rest of the year may expect to find there each fortnight a few suggestive editorial notes, in the discussion of which undergraduates may find occasion to sharpen their wits, several short stories calculated to suit varying tastes but never dull, and some bits of verse which should not be analyzed too closely...
Another article of interest is Mr. Samuel Henshaw's illustrated account of the Okayi, a rare specimen just acquired by the Agassiz Museum of an African animal akin to the giraffe. A criticism, by S. T. M., of the exhibition of the Camera Club addresses itself particularly to amateur photographers. General entertainment is provided in Mr. Stoddard's diary of a youthful would-be dilettante...