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The Mineralogical Museum has received from Miss Mary Dandridge Peck of Sterling, Mass., the collection of minerals made by her grandfather and father, and containing five to six hundred specimens, some of which are of considerable value and all of which will be useful in some way.
This gift has a peculiar interest as Miss Peck's grandfather, Professor William D. Peck. A.B. 1782, was first "Massachusetts Professor of Natural History" in Harvard College (1805-1822), and her father, Dr. William D. Peck, was A.B. 1833 and M.D. 1836. For this reason Miss Peck thought it appropriate...
The annual fall clothing and book collection of the Social Service Committee will be taken up this week. The collectors appointed will try to call at every room in their buildings, but in case a man has things to give and is not seen by a collector he is urged...
Two weeks from today the Phillips Brooks House starts its annual fall clothing collection. In another column this morning the CRIMSON prints a list of institutions that profited by last year's collection and that show in themselves the value to the community of this excellent work. It will be...
He has secured, and presented to the Peabody Museum, specimens from the most famous European prehistoric sites, which form a valuable addition to the museum's collection. He made personal collections of flint chips and fragments from the "eolithic" sites of Otta, Portugal, and of Mons, Belgium--fragments that have...