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Expedition Behind Enemy Lines

At the 3rd Meeting of the Ƶ held on August 30, 1780, Ƶ members voted to appoint “a Committee to confer with the Reverend and Honorable Corporation of the University of Cambridge upon pursuing measures to procure an accurate observation of the Solar eclipse...”
Experimental telephone
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Bell Demonstrates Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell visited the Ƶ and demonstrated his invention of the telephone before members twice during 1876 in May and October...
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Evolution Debates

A protracted debate within the Ƶ over Darwin’s Origin of Species began with a paper on Japanese flora presented by Asa Gray in 1858, leading to an exchange between Louis Agassiz and William Barton Rogers...
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Inoculation of Smallpox

In 1783, a self-described“ Bostonian Member of the American Ƶ… at the request of another Member,” detailed the efforts of Reverend Doctor Cotton Mather to combat smallpox through inoculation...

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