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...Webster 1M will give an account of his trip and experiences in Labrador last summer. Webster spent several weeks in assisting Dr. Grenfell, who spoke in the Union last year, in his medical work on the hospital ship "Strathcona," and in the hospitals for fishermen on the Labrado coast. A quartette from the Glee Club will sing several selections. Books from the House libraries and magazines will be available for use during the afternoon...
...will leave Boston early in June. His party, limited to ten men, will meet in Edinburgh on July 8. Sailing from Scotland, they will join Professor Jaggar in Reykjavik on July 16. Together the two parties will cross to the north of Iceland and thence proceed eastward along the coast, visiting the important geysers, glaciers and volcanoes...
...Grenfell's lecture at the Union last evening the suggestion was made by Dr. C. J. Blake that the subscription raised for Dr. Grenfell's work, if sufficient, should be used for a Harvard bed in one of the hospitals which Dr. Grenfell has founded on the Labrador coast. The annual cost of such a bed would be a little over $50 and for this purpose $1200 or $1500 endowment would be necessary. No one should hesitate to send a subscription because it is small. As announced at the meeting, subscriptions may be sent to the undersigned. W. C. SABINE...
...began by showing a stereopticon slide of the map of Labrador, and giving a geographical survey of the coast and country over which his work extends. Then followed stereopticon views of the fjords, harbors and mountains of Labrador, showing the routes taken by the natives in their cruises along the coast. An account of the experience of the fishing vessels was illustrated by many unique pictures of salmon jumping over falls, and of the caribou and bear of the northern latitudes. He showed several slides of seal-hunting, scenes of winter travel by dog-team, and icebergs, towering far above...
...Frederick Treves, King Edward's surgeon, and is a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as master mariner. For the last twelve years Dr. Grenfell has been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador, cruising in the summer the length of the coast in his steel hospital-ship, the "Strathcona." On one of these voyages he made the first chart of the coast which is in any way accurate. An athlete, and interested in all branches of college activity, Dr. Grenfell is peculiarly well-fitted to treat his subject from the point...