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President Walker of the Institute of Technology delivered last evening, in the Fogg Art Museum, the fifth of his series of lectures on bimetallism. He began with the financial conditions of France in the middle of the century, and described the gold discoveries of that period and their after effect...
...occurred the gold discovery on the Pacific coast. In Australia three years later came the discovery of gold in enormous amounts. The effect produced by the output of these mines threatened to be overwhelming. The average production of gold in the world was increased five fold. It is estimated that within the next ten years the stock of gold in the hands of civilized man had literally doubled...
...Melville said in effect: Less than a century ago an engineer would have seemed out of place before an audience in Cambridge. Now he meets with a cordial appreciation and sympathy, which is a token of the closer relations which are beginning to exist between the literary and the scientific professions...
...message is sufficiently moderate in tone.- (a) It does not exaggerate resultant possibilities.- (b) It does not menace.- (x) Last paragraph is simply a definite and necessary statement of exact effect of finding of the Commission.- (c) England, the menaced nation, has not taken offence: Daily Papers...
...effect which was actually produced, however, disturbed every mint in Europe. We have to read the accounts of the scarcity of this or that metal with a certain degree of incredulity; because the people of that time believed the overflow of one metal was an actual loss to the country, although it really had beneficent effects...