Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Agassiz telescope at the Students Observatory on Jarvis Field may be used by all members of the University from 2 to 5 o'clock tomorrow morning to view the total eclipse of the moon. The period of totality begins at 3.14 o'clock. Besides the 7 1-2-inch Agassiz telescope, a smaller one will also be trained on the moon...
...Agassiz telescope at the Students' Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis street will be open to members of the University this evening at 7.30 o'clock. It will be used for showing the Moon, Saturn, and Mars. The Laboratory will also be open tomorrow and Wednesday at the same time and on Friday between 2 and 5 A. M., when a total eclipse of the moon takes place. Totality occurs...
...annual report of the Peabody Museum shows an addition of 62 volumes and 761 pamphlets, making a total of 3717 volumes and 3188 pamphlets now contained in the library. Valuable gifts have also been received from Dr. J. C. Phillips S,'99, Mr. L. H. Farlow, and Alexander Agassiz...
...Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has recently received two interesting and valuable accessions. One, by the gift of Dr. Alexander Agassiz '55, director of the University Museum, consists of a valuable collection of war implements, household utensils and trinkets, collected by Dr. Agassiz during his visit to Africa last winter. The collection comprises more than 200 specimens, obtained from the Bantu, Nandi, Lumbwa and Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens...
Subscriptions, to which no publicity will be given, may be sent to F. L. Higginson, 50 State street, Boston. The plans for the fund are in charge of a committee composed of the following graduates: C. F. Adams '88, A. Agassiz '55, J. H. Choate '52, T. J. Coolidge '50, F. A. Delano '85, C. S. Fairchild '63, A. G. Fox '69, H. H. Furness '88, A. Hemenway '75, F. L. Higginson '63, G. Higginson, Jr., '87, G. M. Lane '81, W. Lawrence '71, H. C. Lodge '71, G. D. Markham '81, J. T. Mitchell '55, S. Newcomb...