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...Channing of the university, and Mr. Deane, Vice-President of the Massachusetts Historical Association, at recent meetings of the Historical Society. At the former of these meetings, Mr. Winsor spoke on the subject of the discovery and naming of America. He described the exploration of each portion of the coast-line of the two contemns, discussed the claims of Vespucci to being the first discoverer of the main land, and told how the name of the Italian was gradually adopted as the designation of the New World. The lecture was illustrated by facsimiles of original manuscripts and maps from...
...anti-monopoly agitation of the present day, which is as yet perhaps merely incipient as a national issue, though in some localities, particularly on the Pacific coast, a question of the most lively agitation, is chiefly directed against the power and the privileges of the railroad. In another respect also the railroads are the source of profound public interest. Few matters of legislative action, either in Congress, or in the State assemblies, excite more difficulties or attract more attention than that of the regulation of railroads and the immeasurable matters connected with the railroads. So far is this the case...
Professor Lyon will lecture this evening on "The Historical Cuneiform Evidence of Assyrian-Babylonian Contact with the Mediterranean Coast and Islands," in Sever...
...MONDAY.The Historical Cuneiform Evidence of Assyrian-Babylonian Contact with the Mediterranean Coast and Islands. Prof. Lyon. Sever...
...keel schooner yacht Gitana, Mr. William F. Weld, Jr., owner, sailed on her Mediterranean and African coast cruise, yesterday. Mr. Weld will be accompanied by three friends, among them Mr. R. D. Sears, and Mr. Mercer, and possibly Mr. P. Grant, Jr., will be of the party. The Gitana is fitted out for the cruise in the most perfect manner possible, no detail having been overlooked. She sails first for the Bermudas, thence to Madeira, Gibralta, the coast of Spain and the south of France, thence to Italy, Sicily, Algiers and Tangiers in Africa, the Canary Islands, Trinidad, working through...