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...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. Review of a Paper by H. Micoletzky on "The Nervous System of a certain Fresh-water Triclad." Mr. H. M. Kelly. "Color Varieties of the Rabbit and of other Rodents; Their Origin and Inheritance," with exhibition of specimens. Professor W. E. Castle. Lawrence...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. Review of a Paper by H. Micoletzky on "The Nervous System of a certain Fresh-water Triclad." Mr. H. M. Kelly. "Color Varieties of the Rabbit and of other Rodents; Their Origin and Inheritance," with exhibition of specimens. Professor W. E. Castle. Lawrence...
...following books by Harvard graduates have recently been published: "The Mechanism of Speech," by A. G. Bell '96; "North Italian Painters of the Renaissance," by B. Berenson '87; "Peace as the World Glveth," by J. Bigelow '61; "Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function," by J. C. Carter '50; "The Mongols," by J. Curtin '63; "Castles and Keeps of Scotland," by F. R. Frapree S.'98; "The Temple of Virtue," by P. R. Frothingham '86; "The Fire Divine," by R. W. Gilder h.'90; "Between the Dark and the Daylight," by W. D. Howells h.'67; "The Pulse of Asia...
...general object of the expedition is to gather all possible information bearing on the origin, language, manner, of life, and mental advancement of the native peoples. Collections of an ethnological interest of the arms, utensils, and clothes of the Indians will be made for the Peabody Museum...