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at a time when church schools were endeavoring to cope with 

 the education of the masses, without even appreciating the 

 magnitude of their task. If some of the really great and good 

 men who opposed public education could now come to life in 

 the United States, and see the vast expenditure of money on 

 universities and schools of all grades, they would indeed be 

 amazed. What we take now as a matter of course and of ne- 

 cessity, would then have seemed ultra-chimerical. So, I be- 

 lieve, the support given to science in future days will compare 

 with what we now regard as large expenditures. With faith 

 and imagination there is no telling what developments may be 



possible. 



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Spiders in the Adirondacks (Araneina). 

 By J. H. EMERTON, Boston, Mass. 



In August last I joined a party of entomologists from Cor- 

 nell University in an exploring visit to the neighborhood of 

 Mt. Whiteface in the Adirondacks of northern New York. A 

 large variety of entomological specialties were represented and 

 three of us, Prof. C. R. Crosby, Mr. S. C. Bishop and the 

 writer, devoted ourselves to spiders. The party assembled 

 during August 2Oth at Wilmington, twelve miles northeast of 

 Lake Placid, and began the sweeping of bushes and turning 

 over logs around the village. The following day Prof. Crosby 

 and I went to Wilmington Notch and spent the day sweeping 

 the roadside and sifting the leaf mold in the maple woods at an 

 elevation of 1600 feet. Most of the spiders found are known 

 in other parts of the State and in Vermont and New Hamp- 

 shire. Among them are the following: Ccratinclla hietabilis. 

 atrlccps and brunnea, Caseola herbicola, Lophocarcunin sini- 

 plc.r and longitarsus, Microneta viaria and cornupalpis, Diplo- 

 slyla brcris, Bathyphantes zebra, Cicnrina brevls and Cryphoe- 

 ca iiiojitana. In the bushes were Thcridion inontaninn and 

 aurantium, Drapctisca socialis, Epeira aiujnlata and corticaria, 

 Hyptioles cavatus. 



On the third day we went up Mt. Whiteface. The lower 

 part of the mountain has been cut and burned and we did 

 nothing until we reached the spruce forest at a height of 3000 



