Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American Society for Psychical Research held a public meeting last Wednesday evening in the rooms of the Boston Natural History Society. Professor William James, of Harvard, was in the chair in the absence of the president, and received the reports of two committees: one on Mediumistic Phenomena, and the other on Phantasms and Presentiments...
...Among the leading movers in the society the names of Dr. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medical School, Professor Pickering, of the Observatory, Professors Royce and James and Mr. S. N. Scudder, are well-known to most of us. The aim of the society is to investigate the so-called phenomena of thought transference, apparitions and haunted houses, hypnotism, mediumistic phenomena and experimental psychology. On application to the secretary, blanks will be mailed to anyone who cares to note any observations, also instructions for experimenting. Mr. Hodgson's lecture on Monday evening will be on "Apparitions," and anyone who intends...
...Shaler assisted by Mr. T. W. Harris. Prof. Shaler will lecture every week day in the field or laboratory on the following subjects: 1. The general principles of the application of force to the surface of the earth; 2. Erosion by rivers and by the sea; 3. Glacial phenomena; 4. Faults, veins and dikes. July 24, the expedition will be made from Cambridge to New Britain, Conn.; July 25 to 29, at or near New Britain. From there a trip will be made to the Catskill Mountains, N. Y., and from there to North Adams, Mass. It is intended...
Professors Young and McNeill and a party of friends of Princeton will go to Russia this summer to take observations on astronomical phenomena best observed there. Meanwhile Princeton does not lose her reputation for preminence in spectroscopy. The top of the observatory has been painted blue. Why, it is impossible to tell. The conical-roofed tower glared with blue light over the compass, unpleasantly and unwelcomedly...
...Shaler, assisted by Mr. T. W. Harris. Professor Shaler will lecture every week day in the field laboratory on the following subjects: 1. The general principles of the application of force to the surface of the earth; 2. Erosion by rivers and by the sea; 3. Glacial phenomena; 4. Faults, veins and dikes. The field work will include a study of the sea-coast at several points between Cape Ann and Cohasset, and at certain inland areas selected to show the nature and distribution of drift deposits and other phenomena. The laboratory work will be arranged to illustrate...