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...Charles E. Hamlin has been elected councillor on natural history for the Appalachian Mountain Club...
...whole trouble arises from the fact that the Spirit of the Times has made a "mountain of a mole-hill" in assuming that a few remarks let fall by individual students represent the sentiment of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale...
...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...
...Students can return at 3.30 or at 5 P. M. Prof. Shaler intends to make about eight excursions with the members of this elective during the year. The programme will include probably visits to Mt. Monadnock, the quarries at Quincy, the silver mines about Newburyport, the Cumberland Iron Mountain and other places of interest. All those who intend to take any of the advanced courses in geology are strongly advised to go on these excursions...
FURNITURE especially adapted to cottages, mountain houses, hotels, seaside and summer residences can be bought at manufacturers' prices at PAINE'S, 48 Canal street, Boston...