Thursday, Oct. 16

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Victorian Science and the Beyond: Ethereal Evening Tours at 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Longfellow House and the Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St. , West Cambridge. Free, but RSVP. An evening of historic house tours exploring the intersections of Victorian scientific thought, the lure of the supernatural and their echoes today.

One Woman’s Fight to Protect Ancient Maya Legacy at 6 p.m. at Museum of Natural History’s Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St. , Baldwin neighborhood, Cambridge. Free, but RSVP. Clemency Chase Coggins, professor emerita of archaeology and art history at

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