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...catalog of items in an exhibition of 200 first editions in Manhattan, Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, famed bibliographer, included this entry...
...last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them out. The Academy then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom nature played a sorry trick. "With small brain and powerful body and with the ferocity of both, this cat was more insistent...
...honorary degree, but he has never had formal connection with that institution except through his daughter Lilian Hilyer, who married Robert Franz Foerster, onetime Princeton professor of economics. Medical literature contains many articles by Dr. Smith. About him there exist in print only three brief accounts, and the Index Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army gives one of them as Dr. Smith's obituary...
...superb burlesque of the usual rotogravure portrait section with pictures which might have been taken from a penny arcade; a fashion section suggestive of the 1915 Sears Roebuck catalog...
...battle-axes on. The South American revolutionist can buy good arms a little out of date such as Mausers and Springfields sold at Government auctions. Bannerman's is, in fact, the chief customer at U. S. Army auctions, buying saddles, old band uniforms, boots and flags. Its 350-page catalog contains such items as: "U. S. A. 30-ton Hydraulic Jack, used for mounting heavy cannon, $30." Once, at a South American country's urgent request, Bannerman's changed a passenger steamship into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These...