The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, May 1883Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
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The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, May 1883
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Chautauqua Institution -- Periodicals; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle -- Periodicals
It is a very happy, practical letter, and it was in pursuance of the
suggestions made in that letter that Colonel Daniels was invited to
take the class which he organized in geology. I have no doubt that
many of you who attended several sessions of this class in geology
found great benefit, and you have seen how the same kind of work may
be continued on a smaller scale at home. If you have any thoughts in
that direction, I shall be very grateful if you will write them to
me. I hope to do something a little more thorough next year. We have
in the history of Chautauqua had Prof. Winchell, and Prof. Rice, of
Middletown, for very able lectures on geology. We shall do something in
this line in the future. I read the letter because it was practical,
just such as I like to receive.
A VOICE: How would it do for all of us to send on forty to fifty pounds
of geological specimens to the museum from the various localities?
DR. VINCENT: Express prepaid. It might be well to write in advance to
let us know the localities you represent, so that certain portions of
Ohio, where the C. L. S. C. furore prevails, may not send several tons
from the same neighborhood. [Applause.]
A VOICE: A lady here proposes to send specimens from Colorado.
DR. VINCENT: We should be very glad of them. There is no reason why,
with our large organization through the world, we should not have at
Chautauqua one of the best geological museums in the country.
[Footnote I: Seventh Round-Table, held in the Hall of Philosophy, at
Chautauqua, at 5 p. m., August 14, 1882, Dr. J. H. Vincent presiding.]
A correspondent, a lady, writes from Colorado: “I think a knowledge of
hygiene and medicine very essential to house-keepers, but it is one
very little understood in the majority of households. I wish to offer
the suggestion that a course should be founded in connection with the
C. L. S. C. I can not go away from my home and spend time and money to
take the course, but would be glad to take it up in the C. L. S. C., if
offered.”
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