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Died. Mrs. A. Montgomery Ward, 70, widow of the mail order marketer; at her Chicago home, of heart disease, following heat prostration on a train going through the desert near Yuma, Ariz...
...rage among the cattle of California, that Arizona had taken fright and had promptly clapped into quarantine all travelers from that direction. Humans are mildly susceptible to this malady, and are capable of transmitting it through their persons or luggage. Galli-Curci and other motorists were therefore disinfected at Yuma...
Morning Meeting.--"Some Strange Bird Notes--A Mystery," E. H. Forbush (10 minutes); "Cyanocitta crystata, and other Eastern Birds at Wray, Yuma County, Colorado," H. G. Smith (10 minutes); "The Birds of the Southern West Indies," A. H. Clark (10 minutes); "Ornithology of a Churchyard," B. S. Bowdish (10 minutes); "The Nesting Habits of the Flamingo," F. M. Chapman (60 minutes...
...Lewis H. Farlow of Boston has recently given the Peabody Museum an interesting and valuable collection of Indian baskets. It includes some remarkably fine specimens from the Aleutian Islands, British Columbia and California, and an odd and rare gambling placque of the Yuma Indians of Nevada. Mrs. Q. Nuthall has presented the Museum with several cases of rare Mexican objects, and a representative collection has been received from Mr. Alexander Agassiz, illustrating the ethnology of the Maldive Islands, which he visited last winter...