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Geological Conference. Papers: The Great Barrier Reef of Northeast Australia (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. J. B. Woodworth; The Excursion to Rhode Island, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Great Barrier Reef of Northeast Australia (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. J. B. Woodworth; The Excursion to Rhode Island, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...Harvard sportsmen and followers of Izaak Walton will find a most readable article in the May Century on "Game-fishes of the Florida Reef." There are many college men who make annual uniting and fishing excursions South, and these cannot fail to find much valuable information in this most excellent article. A graphic description is given of the different gamefish of the southern reef and the various ways of landing them, and there are interspersed many piscatorial anecdotes which add a zest to the whole...
...Rupert Sargent, formerly of the class of '84, was drowned during the month of August while yachting with three other gentlemen, one of whom was an older brother. The Yacht Mystery sailed from New Haven bound for Nantucket but was swamped near the reef known as the Hen and Chickens. All the passengers were lost. The Mystery was last seen by the sloop, Amelia Powell, as she was passing between Gooseberry neck and the Hen and Chickens on the morning of August 12. The following account of the probable manner of her loss is by one of the gentlemen...
...over three-quarters of a mile from the main land, and if he determined to swim to the shore the wind and tide were against him; so he was obliged to abandon the attempt and strike out for the rocks known as the Hen and Chickens reef although they were in a very poor place for refuge and people acquainted with the rocks say it is impossible that a man should climb on the rocks and remain there. He did reach them. He succeeded in getting on to one of the smaller rocks and looked about for assistance...