Part 2 — C. L. S. C. NOTES ON REQUIRED READINGS FOR MAY.
Reading edition
ENGLISH AS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
SUNDAY READINGS.
CHEMISTRY.
THE EYES BUSY ON THINGS ABOUT US.
“Agassiz,” Louis. (1807-1873.) One of the most eminent naturalists of the century. He was born in Switzerland, and educated in the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg and Munich. He made great researches in the field of science in different lands, and published extensively on subjects of natural history. From 1846 his biography belongs to the scientific history of the United States. For some years he was professor in the scientific school founded at Cambridge by Mr. Abbot Lawrence. For two years he held the professorship of comparative anatomy in the medical college of Charleston, S. C., and in 1868 was appointed professor in Cornell University, in Ithaca, N. Y. His eminence as a scientific man was early recognized in Europe. He was made a member of the Academy of Science in Paris, and of the Royal Society of London.
ANIMAL BIOLOGY.
“Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em And these again have other fleas; and so on, ad infinitum.”