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...large collection of meteorites by Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. English of New Haven. These specimens fell in Winnebago county, Iowa, on May 2, 1890, and are probably the largest collection from any single fall in the world. Nearly all are perfect specimens, being completely covered with a black, burnt coating due to their coming so rapidly through the atmosphere. Several show fractures, and others are thoroughly rounded and melted off. The collection is considered to be a very valuable addition to the museum...
...which, the "Cresson Hearth," is the largest ever found. Among the skeletons found in the graves along the valley several interesting implements have been discovered. Of some of these specimens there have never been any duplicates found. At the other camp is a very singular structure of burnt clay and stones. This had long been an object of interest. This is such a broad field for archaeological study that the second camp has been established here. The work of these camps has been extremely satisfactory, and the camps themselves have been training schools for those who are to carry...
...largest collection of mounds is the Turner group which contains the famous Large Mound. This is made very carefully and of many kinds of material, the foundation being a circle of stone one hundred feet in diameter, firled in with burnt clay, over which is a layer of mixed iron and gravel packed into a solid mass like concrete. This gravel made a floor for the support of two altars. That the mound was used exclusively for religious rites is certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped...
...original Erechtheum was burnt by the Persians; but the new temple was erected on the ancient site. It is a later structure than the Parthenon. The ground plan of the temple was unique, differing from every other known example of a Greek temple. Instead of the usual oblong figure with a portico at each end, the Erechtheum had projecting porticoes on the north and south sides, and a portico at only one end, the eastern one. On the southern side is the Porch of the Maidens, one of the best known specimens of Greek architecture. The skill displayed here...
Ralph Ensign, a Yale senior, was generating gas from hydrofluoric acid in the Kent Laboratory recently, when the tube burst and its contents flew in his face and over his clothing. His eyes escaped, but his face was badly burnt...