Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers.

The Back-Bay Lands. Plans for a Conservatory of Art and Science. Mr. Rogers visits William and Mary College.Degree of LL. D. from his Alma Mater.A Geological Trip to the Provinces. Notes on the Aurora Borealis. Political Excitement. Darwin's " Origin of Species." A Memorial to the Legislature. -Address in its Behalf. Failure of the Bill. -Review of the " Origin of Species."Discussions at the Society of Natural History and the American Academy. -Anniversary Address at the Boston Society of Natural History. Death of Theodore Parker. Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology. -Professor Henry Rogers's Investigations on Primeval Man. The Election of Lincoln. -Second Memorial to the Legislature. Investigations in Physics.Public Meeting of Friends of the Institute of Technology. Lectures in New Bedford, Lowell, Lawrence, etc. Threats of Southern Secession. Inauguration of Lincoln. Incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.