A Handbook of the Principal Scientific Institutions of Boston and Vicinity: With a Brief Account of the More Important Public Works, of the Geology and Geography, and of Places of Historical InterestRockwell and Churchill Press, 1898 - 118 strani |
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Stran 113 - We are the first ring of Bells cast for the British Empire in North America, AR 1744.
Stran 13 - The BULLETIN and MEMOIRS are devoted to the publication of original work by the Professors and Assistants of the Museum, of investigations carried on by students and others in the different Laboratories of Natural History, and of work by specialists based upon the Museum Collections and Explorations. The following publications are in preparation : — Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 to 1880, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Coast Survey Steamer "Blake,
Stran 110 - PRYTANEUM BOSTONIENSE. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE OLD STATE HOUSE, formerly known as THE TOWN HOUSE IN BOSTON — THE COURT HOUSE IN BOSTON — THE PROVINCE COURT HOUSE — THE STATE HOUSE — AND THE CITY HALL.
Stran 30 - ... of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of the Boston Society of Natural History.
Stran 44 - ... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.30 29 John Adams, Works (CF Adams, edit., Boston, 1851-1856), IV, 302, in footnote, so American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memoirs, as, XI (1888) , 78.
Stran 16 - The museum is open daily from 9 until 5 o'clock, and from 7 until 9 in the evening. On Sundays it is open from 1 until 5 in the afternoon. In addition to the museums above named the university possesses museums at the MEDICAL and DENTAL SCHOOLS and the SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE.
Stran 10 - Bedford, for the purpose of scientific research and experiment in Arboriculture, Forestry, and Dendrology, and as a Museum of trees and shrubs suited to the climate of Massachusetts.
Stran 16 - Hall, erected in 1857 with a fund bequeathed by the late Ward Nicholas Boylston, which is situated in the College Yard.
Stran 61 - Ann (forty miles) and inland to Grand Monadnock Mountain (sixty-eight miles distant) . Persons interested in meteorological work are always welcome at the observatory. THE observatory was established as a private meteorological station in 1885 by A. Lawrence Botch, of Boston, and it has since been supported and directed by him. With the exception of the municipal meteorological station in New York, the Blue Hill Observatory was the first in this country to be equipped with instruments which recorded...
Stran 10 - It is, in general, meant for young men who intend to become farmers, gardeners, florists, or landscape gardeners ; as well as for those who will naturally be called upon to manage large estates, or who wish to qualify themselves to be stewards or overseers of farms or country places.