THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



courses of lectures, and eventually left a large share of his fortune 

 to the institution, speak more for the ideals and the atmosphere 

 than any amount of argument. 



I have indicated my interest in many other things besides 

 entomology. My summer vacations were spent largely in camp- 

 ing on the shores of Lake Cayuga. In the summer of 1876 I saw 

 the intercollegiate boat races on Lake Saratoga, where, inci- 

 dentally, Cornell won the 'Varsity race, the Freshman race and 

 the single sculls against Yale, Harvard, Columbia and eight or 

 ten other universities. And later in the same summer I went to 

 the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia — an extremely broad- 

 ening and interesting experience for a boy who had never left 

 Central New York before, except for occasional visits to New 

 York City. 



There is an interesting little story connected with this Ex- 

 position. There was a boy named Frank Cushing who came to 

 Cornell in 1875 and joined our Natural History Society. He was 

 a keen observer, and was especially interested in archeology, 

 notably the archaeology of the American Indian. He had an 

 extraordinary aptitude for finding Indian relics. For example, one 

 day he and I were looking out of the upper windows of one of 

 the university buildings across the valley to the western hills, 

 two miles or more away, and he pointed out a certain spot on 

 the hillside and said to me: "By George! I'm sure there must 

 have been an Indian camp at that spot." Next day he went over 

 there alone and returned at night with arrowheads and other 

 Indian relics that proved the accuracy of his long-range judg- 

 ment. 



In the winter of 1875 to 1876 the Smithsonian Institution sent 

 out letters to persons interested in Indian relics, and asked them 

 to contribute to the exhibit that would be made by the Smith- 

 sonian at the Exposition. Frank Cushing sent in a wonderful lot 



