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FREDERICK REED (Harvard 1881), now teaching in Talladge College, Ala., asks for the colored scholars in the mission schools in that region secondhand clothing of all kinds, including rubber boots and waterproof coats. Students and others who are willing to help him can send their address to A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell Place, who will call for the goods and ship them to Alabama...
...north side of the Mont Blanc group in Europe has been visited, for the purpose of getting a clearer idea of the present condition of the glaciers in that region, where the decrease in size of the masses of ice during the past forty years, common to the whole mountain system of Central Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus, has excited great attention, not only as a matter of scenic interest, but bearing on glacial theories in general. Some geological work was also done in Southwestern England, and a few of the mines of Devonshire were examined during...
...Prosper Bender writes on the "Holidays of the French-Canadians." Americans know so little on this subject that no one can find the article trite. "The French Colony of San Domingo," by Professor E. W. Gilliam, is especially timely as our attention is now drawn to that region. Two other interesting articles are unpublished letters by S. R. Mallory, secretary of the confederate navy in 1861, and by Richard Henry Lee, in 1782. "Francis Marion's Grave," "The Declaration of Independence," and "A trip from New York to Niagra in 1829," are among the other contributions...
...corona of the sun is to be the special object of study by those who go from Harvard, for which purpose the apparatus has been so arranged as to permit the photographing of eight different regions of the spectrum of the corona at the spectrum of the corona at the same time, which will be wholly in the green and yellow parts of the spectrum. Other apparatus will take photographs of the blue region and the ultra-violet, or that which it is beyond the power of the eye to perceive. The plates will not be developed at Willows...
December's Outing opens with a fresh and interesting article on Sport. It deals mainly with shooting around the Potomac and abounds with anecdotes of that region. There follows an article on the Detroit Athletic Club, giving the positions of the various athletes in their respective branches. It also gives a description of the club-house, one of the finest in the country...