INSTITUTK NOTK.S. 1 35 



With this month, the Winter's Course of Lectures before 

 the Institute comes to a close. The meetings have been well 

 attended and much apiMeciated by those present. The Insti- 

 tute takes this ojiportunity of extending- its cordial thanks to 

 those lecturers who have, at no small trouble to themselves, 

 aided it in its work during the past year. The complete list 

 of formal lectures delivered before the Institute, in addition 

 to those cited on previous pages of this issue, includes : 



" Blood," Dr. Ernest L. Clark ; 



"Nansen's Farthest North," illustrated, Prof. George A. 

 Hoadley ; 



" Over the Trossachs to Edinburgh," illustrated, Dr. E. 

 D. Fitch ; 



"Christian Church Architecture," illustrated, Prof. Wil- 

 liam G. Casner ; 



" Brittany," illustrated, Miss Vida Hunt Francis. 



One of the naturalists of the Institute calls to mind a 

 method of trapping bumble bees which was much in vogue in 

 his boyhood days. This consisted in placing an ordinary 

 stone jug, partly filled with water in the vicinity of the nest. 

 Of special value was this device while mowing grass in 

 swampy situations. The passing bees, perhaps taking the 

 unoffending jug for an enemy, would dart into its open mouth 

 and drown themselves. This may not be the proper explana- 

 tion of the phenomenon, but as to its success as a bee catcher 

 there is little doubt. Perhaps some of our readers have a 

 better explanation to offer. 



Mr. William R. Newbold, Jr., of Ancon, Canal Zone, 

 has recently sent to the Institute a number of very fine photo- 

 graphs of the customs and manners of the people in Panama. 

 The pictures show phases of life now rapidly disappearing, 

 and later on will become valuable from a historical standpoint. 



In the Institute Minutes of Januar)^ mention is made of a 



