INSTITUTE NOTES. 



Mr. Robinson T^^ndale, Member, has presented to the 

 museum of the Institute a bow and three arrows of the kind 

 used during the late war between China and Japan. The 

 Chinese troops which came to the front from the interior of 

 China were in many cases only armed with bows and arrows. 

 The specimens in the museum were brought from the interior 

 of the country by one such company, and, through a corres- 

 pondent in China, Mr. Tyndale was able to get possession of 

 them. Mr. Tyndale has also presented a couple of sections 

 of basaltic rock, brought from Haida, in Austria. Columns 

 of this material, similar in shape to those of the Giants' 

 Causeway, in Ireland, are found in great number in Haida, 

 and are used for hitching posts, curb stones, steps, etc. 



The trees in the Court House Square, Media, have had 

 placed upon them proper labels with both common and bot- 

 anical names. Elsewhere in this number will be found a list 

 of the trees and what little is known of the history of their 

 planting. 



The present number of the Procekdings completes 

 Volume IV. Elsewhere will be found title page and index 

 for use in binding into book form. 



Sanford Omensetter reports Aste?- patens in flower 

 Whiskey Run, Delaware County, on July i8th. 



near 



The Institute building has just been painted — something 

 that has been needed for some time. 



