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PEABODY MUSEUM CHANGES,
A Great Work of Remounting and
Reclassification Going On.
The remounting, rearrangement and
re-classification of the specimens in the
Peabody Museum, which was begun last
November, has been going on steadily
since then under the direction of Charles
E. Beecher, Professor of Historical
Geology in the University, and al-
though the work accomplished is but
a small fraction of the enormous whole,
as planned, enough has been done to
give an idea of the great value to the
student when completed. The method
of mounting the specimens has hereto-
fore been on plaster bases, difficult. to
make, expensive, and not wholly satis-
factory, as they concealed a consider-
able portion of specimens they supported.
Neat, gilded iron supports which are
screwed firmly to a substantial and hand-
some cherry base which moves on
smoothly rolling castors, are now being
used in place of the cumbersome plas-
ters. The new scheme offers a means
of observing every portion of a speci-
men, a thing almost impossible hereto-
fore. A large number of fossil cycads
have been mounted on these rolling
bases, including one supposed to be the
largest of its kind in the world, having
four branches and weighing nearly one
thousand pounds.
A work, now going on, which Pro-
fessor Beecher expects to have com-
pleted by Commencement and put on ex-
hibition in the great vertebrate hall on
the second floor, is the re-construction
of the bones of a dinosaur which will
stand 15 feet high and more than 20 feet
long. The fossil remains, which were
collected for the late Professor. Marsh
in Wyoming ten years ago, and since
stored in the basement of the Museum,
will be mounted on a slab. The base-
ment rooms are being vverhauled and
with closer storing are yielding much
needed elbow room. As fast as places
can be found and mounting accom-
plished, the more easily handled speci-
mens, which have lain packed in boxes
for years, are being brought out and put
in their proper geological order in the
exhibition rooms.
Besides a great many new tools, the
Museum authorities have purchased, to
carry on the work of improvement, a
petrotome or rock-slicing machine, the
combined gift of the Scientific School
and Professor George J. Brush, was
put in place in the basement last
week. It furnishes the means of cutting
truly and smoothly, with great facility
of adjustment, large or small sections
of rocks, stones or precious metals, and
is a great improvement over the old
machine in use for 25 years.
One of the points of the new plan of
classification and rearrangement is the
photographing of every specimen when
it is ready to occupy its particular place.
Several negatives are taken and a print
inserted in specially prepared books.
When the work is completed, these will
become a valuable illustrated and in-
dexed catalogue, showing at once where
any specimen in the Museum is and also
where its negative is stored.
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Dr. F. L. Chase of the Yale Astro-
nomical Observatory, has received an in-
vitation from the United States Naval
Observatory in Washington, to be a
member of one of their expeditions to
the South to obserye the Solar eclipse,
May 28.
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Since the visit of Henry Drummond
in October, 1887, no series of religious
meetings at Yale in recent years have
been more universally attended, more
favorably received by the students and
more far-reaching in their effects than
the recent addresses to undergraduate
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Mott of New York City.
Mr. Mott graduated from Cornell Uni-
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professional studies and to give himself
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Christian Association shortly after his
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men of all lands he was made Secretary
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dent life. In fitting recognition for this
work, Yale University conferred upon
him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1899.
The series of meetings at Yale was the
conclusion of a tour among leading uni-
versities of Canada and Eastern United
States in the months of January and
February. At Cornell, Toronto, Uni-
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dents.
Mr. Mott occupied the College pulpit
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ing, where he was listened to with
marked attention and where his words
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A. Department, and the rooms of the
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students. On Sunday and Monday
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interest that he was prevailed upon to
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forward presentation of the facts of sin
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