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...Committee of Selection to the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford from Massachusetts yesterday selected C. H. Haring '07 of Philadelphia, Pa. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia Central High School, where he received a city scholarship from Philadelphia to go to Harvard. His College course has been of a general nature, although he intends to specialize in history and jurisprudence. During his College career he has been a first group student since his Sophomore year, held the Bartlett Scholarship for one year and a Price-Greenleaf for the last two years. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Arnold Arboretum has arranged to send Mr. E. H. Wilson, the well known English botanical collector, on a two-years' journey in central and western China to gather specimens of Chinese flora. Mr. Wilson is well qualified for this work, as he has already passed five years in China, and is well acquainted with the country and with its flowers...
...sailed from San Francisco for Shanghai on January 8 accompanied by Mr. J. E. Thayer '85, who is to collect birds, mammals, and reptiles of central and western China, which are now very imperfectly represented in American and European museums. They will proceed at once to Ichang and the gorges of the Yangtse which will be their permanent base or this year. In 1908 they will travel northward to the boundaries of Thibet and China, whence Mr. Wilson expects to return to Boston...
...lectures are related to exhibits in different parts of the Museum and are intended to aid visitors in appreciating the collections. The case of meteorites in the Mineralogical Museum will form the basis of the first lecture by Professor Wolff. The extensive collections and models of ruins from Central America in the Peabody Museum will be described in the illustrated lecture by Dr. Tozzer...
From explorations in Central America a number of casts of sculptures and hieroglyphs and an extensive report, illustrated by photographs, have been received. The fourth annual expedition to New York State yielded a good collection of implements, ornaments, pottery, and skeletons from an ancient Iroquois site. In the research work of Mr. Ernest Volk in the glacial deposits near Trenton, N. J., several paleolithic implements were found and additional geological facts were obtained in confirmation of the antiquity of man in the Delaware Valley. The report describes the expedition to South America and acknowledges the courtesies extended by the Peruvian...