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Charles Dudley March, Harvard, '80, died in Italy in 1887. He left the whole of his library, amounting to some six hundred volumes, together with his collection of paintings, to Harvard College. The books have not yet arrived at the library, but a list of them has been received which...
The Yale museum has received a valuable addition in the shape of a collection of over ten thousand specimens of shells presented by Mrs. Eldridge, of Yarmouthport, Mass.
He said that the Koran, which today furnishes spiritual food for two hundred million people, is unique in that it is the work of one man. All other religious books of the same character the work of a long period of years and one of many men working under widely...
Ex-President White of Cornell, who is at present traveling in Egypt recently sent a valuable collection of antiquities to Cornell.
Yesterday afternoon, Professor Lyon continued his course of lectures on Babylonian Books, and he devoted the hour to exhibiting and explaining many interesting relics of the inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria who lived somewhere between the years 1400 and 2000 B. C. Many of the specimens which Professor Lyon exhibited...