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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 744 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 56 0 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 40 4 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 37 3 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 37 1 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 30 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 25 5 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 14 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 12 0 Browse Search
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Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Some old trees.—number I (search)
e big Redwoods of California, they are the largest and oldest trees we have, and we are correspondingly proud of them. Doubtless there is not another group of such notable trees in the eastern states. There are twenty-five of them, the largest sending up its trunk eighty feet into the air, and measuring eighteen and one-half feet, five feet above the ground. In 1845, one of the smaller trees was cut down. Lowell counted the rings and found they numbered seven hundred and fifty. So that Agassiz' estimate that they must be in the neighborhood of a thousand years of age was not far wrong. The distinguishing mark of the oak is its horizontal branching. Dr. Holmes has spoken of this and says: All the rest of the trees shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak alone defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell, and stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the strain may be mighty enough to be worth resisting. Here is an
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Index (search)
Index Adams, Charles, 78, 92, 96 97. Adams, Chester, 16, 17, 21, 23, 46, 48, 51, 52, 69. Adams, Joseph, 10, 86. Adams, Joseph, Jr., 13. Adams, Samuel, 11. Agassiz, Louis, 8. Albion Street, 53, 85. Alewife Brook, 47. Allen, Alfred, 49, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 92, 99. Allen, Amos F., 77. Allen, Amos S., 79, 83. Allen, Henry C., 48. Alphabetical Cards, 98. American Anti-Slavery Society, 29. American Arithmetic, Robinson, 25. American First Class Book, 25, 98. Ames, D., 15. Ames, Philander, 49, 92. Andrews, Hannah, 72. Angier, D., 12. Angier, Ellen P 53. Anne Adams Tufts Chapter, D. A. R., 86. Appalachian Club, 36. Arlington, Mass., 7. Arnold Arboretum, 1, 8. Austin, Hannah S., 92, 96, 99. Austin, N., 13. Austin Street, 20, 22, 93. Ayer, John F., 53. Babcock, A., 13. Bacon, Moses, 82. Bacon, William H., 96. Bagnall, William R., 77, 78, 83. Bailey's Algebra, 98. Baker, , 52. Baker, Amos P., 67 Baker, Henry, 59. Banks Street, 6