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...gravitation and of the conservation of energy, have both originated in England. In fact all great advances in the domain of Physics have been made by Anglo-Saxons. The German experiments of the last two years only serve to illustrate the great principle enunciated ten years ago by Clerk Maxwell, namely, that heat, light, and electricity are all one and the same thing, and that we receive them all by electro-magnetic impulses transmitted through the ether from the sun. In the last one hundred years our ideas on physical subjects have immensely advanced. Benjamin Franklin's machine for producing...
Political Relations of Canada and the United States. Lecture. Hon. J. G. Bourinot, Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons. Sever...
...Bonrinot, clerk of the Canadian House of Commons and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, will lecture this evening on the Relation between Canada and the United States. Mr. Bourinot is an eminent authority on Canadian constitutional questions and his paper read before the Historical Society last week showed great familiarity with his subject. The same paper has since been read at Johns Hopkins University. The lecture tonight will touch on extradition, the fishery treaty and other questions of present interest...
Political Relations of Canada and the United States. Lecture. Hon. J. G. Bourinot, Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons. Sever...
...following are the officers for the fall meetings of the Athletic association: Referee, W. Goodwin; judges, G. S. Mandell and F. B. Lund; judge of walking, H. H. Bemis; clerk of course, J. Wendell: assistants, J. H. Rhoades and N. Rantoul; timers, J. G. Lathrop, J. D. Bradlee, and Fiske; measurers, W. Myer and J. H. Hunt; scorer. J. T. Burnett...