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...country. There are several new features proposed of which perhaps the most important is the pyschometric room. This will contain a set of tests of the mental condition such as memory, sensitiveness, fatigue, emotion, etc. Besides this there will be a well ventilated and darkened room for reactions, thick padding preventing all disturbances arising from noise. In connection with the laboratory there will be a work shop where the apparatus may be repaired...
...from the north in autumn; fourth, those that pass through in the migrations; and fifth the stragglers. Naturalists have never been able satisfactorily to explain the regular migrations of birds. It does not seem probable that they are influenced by cold as they are so well protected by their thick covering of feathers and fat, and by a very rapid circulation. Then many of the most delicate birds spend the winter in the north and suffer no ill effects. Some naturalists explain it by saying that these migratory birds originated in the north and were driven south by the cold...
...boat house things presented a dreary spectacle. When the crew went down at 4 o'clock the wind had swung around to the west, and the air, filled with driving snow, was growing colder. The snow was falling so thickly that the Weld Boat House could hardly be seen. The water in front of the boat house was thick with snow, and a few pieces of ice were floating down the river...
...BEALS, Sec.LOST.- A pair of spectacles, one lens very thick, in case marked "A. J. Lloyd, Boston." Return to 47 Weld...
LOST.- A pair of spectacles, one lens very thick, in case marked "A. J. Lloyd, Boston." Return to 47 Weld...