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a window. Then the boy said, "I would like to introduce the 

 lecturer for the morning, Donald Farquhar." I then came on the 

 stage and bowed. I told about insects. How to tell a Bug from 

 a Beetle and things like that. Then I showed the Bimible Bees' 

 Honeycomb and my collection. The lecture lasted over one-half an 

 hour. After that there was a two act play. Five grown-ups and 

 five children came, that is not counting the actors. We made 

 sixteen cents. 



July 26th — We had the show two times to-day. 



July 2yth — We had the show one time to-day. We made 30 

 cents out of it to-day. I was 



July 2'/th — We had the show one time to-day. We made 30 

 cents out of it to-day. I was almost through my lecture and was 

 doing the best yet when I began to feel sick when all at once I 

 dropped on the stage. Mr. Perkins caught me and took me out 

 in the open and gave me a glass of water. After that I wanted to 

 go on but they would not let me. It was very hot and no air can 

 get at the stage because of the scenery. I needed the fresh air. 



August 3 — The first caterpiller I had that went into a chrysalid 

 came out as the Eastern Swallowtail to-day. The chrysalis is 

 the same shape but is a different color. The caterpillar stayed 

 in the chrysalid stage 17 days. 



News Notes 



Professor L. H. Bailey spent the summer and early autumn in England and 

 Scotland working in the herbaria of Kew and Glasgow with a view to ascertain- 

 ing the types of the original wild plants of our present horticultural and garden 

 species. He had difficulty in getting passage back to America and was finally 

 obliged to take steerage accommodations in a Sewdish ship and he says the 

 steerage was liberally garnished with wardrobe trunks of people who were glad 

 to get any accommodations whatever from Europe to the United States. 

 There were no emigrants on the ship. 



Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, of the Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar 

 Rapid , has been called to the chair made vacant by Professor Tuttle's resigna- 

 tion, and is now in charge of the Rural Leaflet. Dr. Palmer is a Cornell gradu- 

 ate and is favorably known to the readers of the Review thorugh his interest- 

 ing articles. 



