Word: offing
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The eighteenth congress of the American Ornithologists' Union will commence today in the Nash Lecture Room of the University Museum. The meeting will begin at 10 o'clock, and will be continued on Wednesday and Thursday.
The University Debating Club has arranged the following outside debates for class teams: The Freshmen against Phillips Exeter, at Exeter, and against the Worcester High and Latin School, at Worcester; the Sophomores against the Young Men's Congress of Boston, as Association Hall, Boston; the Junior Wranglers against Holy Cross...
The dates and questions of these debates will be announced later.
In order to classify properly a number of obscure species of tropical American plants, Professor Robinson, the curator of the Gray Herbarium, while abroad this summer, spent considerable time examining the types which are preserved in the various European collections. There so called types are the original plants, which such...
It is in work of this kind that Professor Robinson has been engaged. He stayed sometime at Geneva, where, in the de Candolle collection there is a very large number of types of Mexican and South American species discovered by the Spanish explorers. He also examined types in the Michaux...