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5. Woods Hole and Noank — George Brown Goode 



— Goode the naturalist — Goode the man — 

 Verrill and Hyatt — Mystic River 



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1. Indianapolis — Indianapolis High School — • 

 Enter Gilbert — ■ Maywood warblers — The 

 Manual of Vertebrates — Marriage to Susan 

 Bowen 



2. McCulloch — Pauperism — Reed — ■ Harrison — 

 The McKinley tariff — Dr. Fletcher — Riley — 

 Thompson — Two friends at large 



3. At Cumberland Gap — Shaler — The mountain 

 camp — Butler University — Joint studies — 

 Sisco of Lake Tippecanoe — The Johnny Darters 



— Rafinesque — Rafinesque in Kentucky — 

 Catalogue of fresh-water fishes 



4. Copeland's death — Indiana Medical College — 

 Doctor of Medicine — Wiley — Not a clerical 



— Concerning medicine — Great discoveries 



— Floating matter in the air 



5. Efforts for a university position — Wisconsin — 

 Princeton — - Vassar — Michigan — Cincinnati — 

 Imperial University of Tokyo — Handicaps 



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1. Harlan and McCreary — Lookout Mountain and 

 Missionary Ridge — White and black — Ocmul- 

 gee Basin — Stone Mountain — Hayes and 

 Tilden — Greeley's defeat 



2. Invention of the telephone — Speaking across 

 the continent — Printing a letter — Explora- 

 tion of Southern rivers — About Asheville — • 

 Buncombe County — Mitchell's Peak — The 

 Santee Basin — Stephens — Rome again — 

 Trout of the Northwest 



3. Second trip South ^ — ^A tragic situation — 

 Change in angle of vision — The Rhododendron 

 Trail — Smash Wagon Ford — Falls of Tallulah 



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