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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



Dulles, of Philadelphia ; Dr. E. C. Spitz- 

 ka, of New York ; Prof. J. W. Hern, of 

 Philadelphia ; Dr. Hiram Corson and Dr. 

 Thomas Mayo. 



In New York, since 1894. there have 

 been gathered by the Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1,515,- 

 513 dogs and cats. During which time 

 there have been an average of 26 men 

 employed daily, and each of these have 

 been bitten on an average of four times 



a month, making in the fourteen years 

 about 17,000 bites on probably 100 dif- 

 ferent men. The bites were distributed 

 on hands, neck, arms, limbs, body and 

 face. Not a single case of hydrophobia 

 has resulted from these bites. The em- 

 ployees take the bites as a matier of 

 course, have them cauterized and 

 dressed, go about their business and 

 think no more of it. 



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SOME ORIGINAL OBSERVATIONS. 



B\' MISS ALICE SPRINGSTEAD, KALAMAZOO, 

 MICH I CAN. 

 CORRESPONDING MEMBER NO. 2,000. 

 1 took a trip by water from Detroit to 



THE ICHNEUMON COCOONS FROM A 

 TOMATO LARVA. 



Sault Sainte Marie this summer. It was 

 so interesting to watch the gulls follow 

 the boat. They would show up about 

 mealtime. Whenever anything was 

 thrown over they dived after it. I was 

 especially interested in the way they 

 turned their heads from side to side 

 watching for food. They came very 

 close to the boat. 



I was also interested to note the dif- 

 ference in the trees. Up there, there are 

 so many pines and spruces. 



While at the Zoo I went through the 

 government locks in an electric launch. 

 They were a wonder to me — those large 

 freight boats being lifted up and passed 

 on or being lowered to the lower level 

 of the St. Mary's River. 



While out in the country this fall in 

 September the boys tried to extinguish 

 some yellow jackets that had a nest in 

 an old apple tree and bothered the horses, 

 for the tree is used as a hitching post. 

 They used fire. I got a piece of the nest 

 with the larvae in and one bee. I put 

 them in a box and the next morning I 

 had three bees instead of one. I brought 

 them home and bees kept coming out. 

 We had a very hot spell for a few days. 

 I put them in a glass dish and set them 

 on the window sill outside so they could 

 get at the flowers below but they never 

 left the dish even when the sun became 

 very hot, for I forgot them for a while 

 and when I went to look they were all 

 dead. I opened a number of the cells 

 and found all stages of development. 



