Word: aerial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very generous gift from Professor Thomas Kirk, of Wellington, New Zealand. Two immense logs of the famous rata or so called sycomore, of New Zealand, have just been safely brought to the University Museum. The seeds of the rata germinate in the forks of lofty trees, sending down aerial roots which reach the earth and draw therefrom an increased supply of mineral matter, while the young plant above sends out branches with foliage to appropriate from the air the other requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until this intruder actually crowds...
...third meeting will be devoted to the fence vault, horizontal bar, club swinging, flying rings, rope climbing, aerial exhibition and the ten yard dash...
...expected that the meetings this winter will prove more interesting than before inasmuch as several new events have been introduced; they are, double trapeze, top spinning, ladder exhibition, rope climbing and aerial exhibition...
...will be remembered that some time ago the Cosmopolitan offered two prizes for the best essays on "Aerial Navigation." The article which won the second prize is published in the current number. It is by Mr. John P. Holland...