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03/13/1855 |
Lowell (Percival) is born in Boston. |
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11/24/1859 |
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is published. |
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1864 |
_______ is the first director of the Museum of Science, Boston.(?) |
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1865 |
Harvard professor Eben Horsford receives a patent for baking powder. |
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11/14/1866 |
Predicted meteor shower over Boston fails to occur. |
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1876 |
Boston Scientific Society is established. |
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05/02/1879 |
Boston Globe reports on a “new and alarming theory”” concerning the drilling for oil.” |
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1891 |
Massachusetts Food and Drug Laboratory is established. |
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1895 |
Massachusetts Diphtheria Antitoxin Laboratory is established. |
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08/30/1907 |
Percival Lowell’s claim that Mars is inhabited appears in the New York Times. |
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