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enough to enclose any ordinary furniture, and power pumps. 

 The iustalation is very complete with all the necessary gauges and 

 couveuiencies for introducing the disinfectant. Of course this is 

 not only more effective but shortens the time of exposure : in the 

 tropics such methods are very desirable, as it is not easy to reach 

 termites and other deeply imbedded grubs without an unreason- 

 ably long exposure. 



The Scandinavian museums are rich in material of the Stone 

 Age, and perhaps nowhere else is this material better studied. 

 We found nothing in the central European museums surpassing 

 the collections here. On June nth at about the sixth hour of the 

 afternoon we boarded the good steamer Tornea of the Finland line 

 and began a three day's voyage to St. Petersburg. To our aston- 

 ishment we were hardly out of sight of land all the voyage ; the 

 granite rocks capped with pines were always on one side if not on 

 both. A short stop at Helsingfors, but so late in the day that we 

 did not go ashore beyond the pier. It would have been pleasant 

 to have carried with us many of the neat and attractive things we 

 found on that steamer! 



Up the canal and right into the city of Peter the Great ; not 

 the least trouble with the Customs, and we were installed in most 

 comfortable apartments in the Hotel d' Europe and were soon ready 

 to partake of our first Russian meal. That it required some time 

 to get used to the new surroundings can well be imagined, but 

 St. Petersburg is a cosmopolitan city and here, more than usual, 

 everybody seemed ready to help strangers instead of trying to plun- 

 der them. The city was very attractive, but our work had to be 

 attended to and our first disappointment was to find the natural 

 history collection connected with the University closed for the 

 summer ; later we found entrance and were greatly pleased with 

 the collections ; the deep sea specimens were especially well dis- 

 played, both the lower forms and the great mammals. The Eth- 

 nographic Museum was connected with the Academie Imperiale 

 des Sciences, of which I had the honor to be a corresponding 

 member, and I found Dr. Wilhelm Radloff. the Director of the 

 Ethnographic-Anthropologic Museum of Peter the Great, which 

 is one of the numerous scientific institutions connected with that 



great academy, ready to assist us in ever}- way. We had been 



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