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...SYSTEMATIC Soph declared to his friends that he had fixed the date for his three annual bats. The next night a friend saw him describing a cycloid with the central point of the brick in his hat, and said: "Why, Smith, I thought your first date was three weeks later?" "Er - hic ! - feller mush get into training, yer know...
...which he completed the task allotted him placed him at once among the leading naturalists of the day. In 1832 he was honored with a professorship in the College of Neufchatel. His first great work was published in 1839, entitled "Natural History of the Fresh-Water Fishes of Central Europe," and at the same time "Researches concerning Fossil Fishes" came out. On these works his reputation was securely established. It was while gathering information for them that he became acquainted with Cuvier, whose teachings had great influence over him, and also with Humboldt, to whose apartments he was always welcome...
...twenty-one universities were united in one central institution, where, as upon a common trunk, the different branches of the system took their rise. This is called the University of France...
...large central room at the Museum, intended for the reception of mounted specimens, will soon be finished. This will give to that portion of the Museum open to visitors a much more attractive appearance. Two other rooms for the same purpose are to be added as soon as possible...
...London presents itself as one of the most central places that has ever been mentioned. That course came very near being selected in '71, and was not given up on account of any known disadvantage; but the meeting of the Committee was at Springfield, and the members were invited to dine at the Ingleside House, and so the Ingleside course was selected, and for the next two years we kept going nearer the ocean in hopes of finding better water, but with limited success...