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Arequipa, the site of the observations, is situated on the Mollendo railway, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet, and is the second largest city in Peru. It is here that all their principal instruments are located. A railroad leads from this city up into the Andes, six thousand feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular...
Although the contents of the will of the late Dr. Alvan Talcott have not yet been publicly announced, nevertheless most of the specifications are known to interested parties. The amount of the estate is estimated at about eighty-five thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand goes to Yale for an endowment of a Greek professorship, the will providing for the immediate payment of that fund. He also leaves his entire medical library, which is very large and valuable, to the Yale Medical School...
...building for the school was erected three years ago which cost about twenty-five thousand dollars, and the ground on which it stands was presented by the Greek government. In fact the work both of directors and students is greatly facilitated, not only by the material help always afforded the institution by the government, but also by the mere feeling that the country where their studies are pursued wishes them well and is willing to do all in its power if any new assistance may be needed...
According to yesterday's edition of the Boston Advertiser a new bequest has been made to Harvard. Mr. J. Huntington Wolcott, who died ten days ago, left twenty-five thousand dollars to the college, of which the income is to be applied to establish scholarships for worthy students; twenty-five hundred dollars to the Lawrence Scientific School, and twenty-five hundred to the Botanical Gardens...
...short business meeting was held immediately after the lecture. Mr. Roots, the president, announced that eleven thousand copies of "Harvard's Better Self," reprinted from the New England Magazine for December, 1890, were ready for distribution. Five thousand of these are to be sent to the clergymen of the country, four thousand to the alumni, and two thousand for general distribution. He announced also that a number of the members were accustomed to go each Sunday to the wharves in Boston and engage the sailors for a short time in singing, conversation and reading from the New Testament. He said...