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- On the Instruments in Use in an Astronomical Observatory
(Illustrated London Almanack, 1854)
- A Californian's Gift to Science, by Taliesin Evans
(Century Magazine, 1886B)
- The founding of the Lick Observatory.
- Harvard's Botanic Garden and Its Botanists, by Ernest Ingersoll
(Century Magazine, 1886B)
- The Zoological Station at Naples, by Emily Nunn Whitman
(Century Magazine, 1886B)
- A research aquarium in Italy.
- The Agassiz Association, by Harlan H. Ballard
(St. Nicholas, 1889)
- A union of local societies organized for the study of nature by personal observation.
- Trawling for Scientific Purposes, by Alexander Meek
(Windsor Magazine, 1899B)
- The use of scientific trawling to study the populations and life cycles of fish and fisheries.
- Up in a Balloon, Boys! by J.M. Bacon
(English Illustrated Magazine, 1899A)
- On the new frontiers of research being conducted by balloon.
- How the Great Paris Telescope Was Built
(The Strand, 1900A)
- The Government Laboratory, by John Mills
(Strand, 1901A)
- The government laboratory's work of chemical analysis and examination, looking at matters of chemical adulteration, safety, detecting smuggled spirits in other products, etc. One such analysis examined an "epidemic of arsenical poisoning attributed to beer."
- The History of the British Association, by John Mills
(Strand, 1901B)
- The British Association of Men of Science, often known as the "Red Lion Club" (members are known as Lions and the president is the Lion King). Its members gather once a year "to cheerfully present to each other, to the world, and to posterity the fruits which they have individually gleaned in the scientific vineyard during the last twelve months."
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