Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists make publicity hay when the sun shines most feebly-during the Christmas-New Year holidays. High lights of the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting last week in Richmond...
...Robert Hooke's ghost had been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke...
...visited the U. S. as a sort of goodwill envoy of British learning, making speeches on the philosophy of science and its mission in a disquieted world. This week Sir Richard is scheduled to speak at the winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Richmond, where he will undoubtedly be lionized...
...portrait of Captain John Smith by Sir Godfrey Kneller was purchased in London and presented to the State of Virginia by 15 dignified citizens. The portrait was hung in the Governor's office in Richmond. It showed the old hero in a cuirass and heavy whiskers; an Oriental headdress covered the scalp preserved to him and Virginia by the love of Pocahontas. This headdress roused the suspicions of Richmond's polished, witty Alexander Weddell, U. S. Ambassador to Argentina...
...From Richmond last week came the report of Mr. Weddell's investigations. Sir Godfrey Kneller, court painter to England's King Charles II and signer of the Richmond portrait, did two pictures of Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin, Russian envoy to the Court of St. James's in 1681. Comparing Richmond's John Smith with both, Mr. Weddell found the subject identical. Vaguely London dealers murmured that Sir Godfrey's favorite engraver was named John Smith: maybe that was how Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin passed for Virginia's Smith...