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...interesting talk on the investigations which he has been making during the past two years on certain oxines related to mallic acid. The meeting was the only one of the kind which has been held this year, and was especially instructive in showing the difficulties of this sort of research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston Chemical Club. | 5/22/1895 | See Source »

...principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that the bodies were not laid out. Eleusis, Euboea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American School at Athens. | 5/10/1895 | See Source »

...commercial and financial. Course 3, Industrial History of England, a study of the successive phases of industrial organization with a view to tracing this aspect of social evolution. Course 4 is devoted to Socialism. Course 5, the Statistical Study of Certain Economic Problems, includes lectures on principles of statistical research; each member of the class undertakes the investigation of a particular problem, and reports the results of her inquiry to the class. Course 6, Social Pathology, is devoted to a study of the defective, dependent and delinquent classes, accompanied by discussions of methods of dealing with each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electives at Wellesley. | 5/1/1895 | See Source »

...Europe there are two distinct systems of zoological stations, one in which the stations are connected with the different universities, the other of a more cosmopolitan character, offering opportunity for research to students of every kind coming from every portion of the world. Thirty years ago there was not a place on the sea coast where marine zoology could be studied, excepting in a private way. At present the most important stations are situated on the North Sea and on the Mediterranean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Agassiz's Lecture. | 4/10/1895 | See Source »

Thus the students are enabled to remain at the laboratory of the station all the year around, and zoological research is consequently greatly facilitated. Here, also, the results of investigations are published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Agassiz's Lecture. | 4/10/1895 | See Source »