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...colleges represented at this meeting are as follows: Harvard-President Eliot and Dean W. C. Sabine '88; Yale-Professor Tracy Peck and Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., secretary; Brown University-Dean Alexander Meiklejohn and Professor W. C. Bronson; Dartmouth College-Professor Louis H. Dow '90 and Professor John K. Lord; University of Vermont-President Matthew H. Buckman and Professor Frederic Tupper, Jr.; Williams College-President Henry Hopkins and Dean F. C. Ferry '95; Bowdoin College-Professor Charles T. Burnett and Professor Henry Johnson; Middlebury College-President Ezra Brainerd and Professor Charles B. Wright; Amherst College-Professor John M. Tyler; Trinity...
...Mineralogical Museum has received from Miss Mary Dandridge Peck of Sterling, Mass., the collection of minerals made by her grandfather and father, and containing five to six hundred specimens, some of which are of considerable value and all of which will be useful in some...
This gift has a peculiar interest as Miss Peck's grandfather, Professor William D. Peck. A.B. 1782, was first "Massachusetts Professor of Natural History" in Harvard College (1805-1822), and her father, Dr. William D. Peck, was A.B. 1833 and M.D. 1836. For this reason Miss Peck thought it appropriate that the collection should come to Harvard College...
...Twenty Years of the Republic," by H. T. Peck...
...Peck spoke first of numerous disasters along the coast, describing vividly the storm of November, 1898, in which the life-saving crews had not only to perform their usual duty of saving shipwrecked crews, but also to rescue cottagers, whose homes were demolished. In that storm the entire crew of the pilot-boat "Columbia" was lost, and the wreck is now on exhibition at Scituate. Mr. Peck showed numerous pictures of surf to demonstrate the dangers undergone in launching life-boats. One of the slides was a fac-simile of a letter written by the keeper of Minot's Ledge...