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listen to the arrowmaker's story. The figures 

 are casts of Oneida Indians. 



The Corn Harvest. — This group depicts a 

 harvest scene in the maize fields on the flats 

 near Squakie Hill in the Genesee Valley look- 

 ing south toward the High Banks of the 

 Genesee River. With one exception the fig- 

 ures are all of women who are engaged in 

 harvesting, braiding and pounding the maize 

 and baking corn bread. The autumnal color- 

 ing is brilliant and the background very rich 

 and effective. The figures are life casts of 

 Seneca Indians. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The degree of doctor of laws has been con- 

 ferred by Washington University on Dr. Theo- 

 bald Smith, of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research. 



At the commencement exercises celebrating 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Le- 

 high University the degree of doctor of sci- 

 ence was conferred on Joseph Barrell, B.S. 

 ('92), professor of structural geology in Tale 

 University. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected, 

 as corresponding member in the section of 

 medicine. Dr. Tersin, of Kha-Trang (Annam), 

 former worker at the Pasteur Institute, known 

 for his work in bacteriology, especially on 

 antiplague serum. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that ever since Professor Kita- 

 sato resigned his office as director of the Im- 

 perial Institute for the Study of Infectious 

 Diseases, in consequence of the amendment of 

 the imperial ordinance which took place quite 

 against his and his followers' wishes, public 

 sympathy has been aroused to help him in com- 

 pleting his new enterprise in establishing an 

 institute, which was completed in December 

 last. His services have been recognized by 

 over 400 statesmen, business men and others 

 of his native province, Kumamoto, who held a 

 meeting on April 10, at which they presented 

 him with a medal in order to express their 

 recognition of his achievements in promoting 

 bacteriology, public health and medicine. 



We learn from the Journal of Engineering 

 and Industrial Chemistry that Professor E. C. 

 Franklin, of the Leland Stanford University, 

 has had an unfortunate laboratory accident, 

 through an explosion in his laboratory which 

 caused bums and other injuries. Later news 

 announces that he is recovering in the hos- 

 pital and that the accident will not leave seri- 

 ous consequences. 



Mr. Clyde H. Bailey, cereal technologist of 

 the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has been granted a year's leave of ab- 

 sence to take up research work in the labora- 

 tory of the State Grain Inspection Department 

 in Minneapolis. 



Professor George M. Reed, of the depart- 

 ment of botany of the University of Missouri, 

 has been appointed research fellow at the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the summers of 

 1916 and 1917, in place of Professor W. H. 

 Rankin, of Cornell University, who was ob- 

 liged to resign on account of a change in his 

 duties at Cornell. The problem to be investi- 

 gated is the diseases of the trees and shrubs of 

 Prospect Park, which adjoins the Botanic 

 Garden. 



Dr. Martin B. Tinker, who was professor 

 of surgery at the Cornell Medical College in 

 Ithaca from 1903 till the second-year instruc- 

 tion was discontinued at Ithaca, has been 

 elected to the presidency of the New York 

 State Medical Society. 



A CABLEGRAM has been received by the Mu- 

 seum of the University of Pennsylvania offi- 

 cials from Dr. William C. Farabee, leader of 

 the university museum's Amazon Expedition, 

 saying that he has sailed from Para, Brazil, 

 and expects to reach Philadelphia about the 

 middle of this month. Dr. Farabee is bring- 

 ing the collections he has made in the last two 

 years, those of his first year having reached 

 the museum. 



Professor Adolph F. Meyer, consulting 

 engineer to the International Joint Commis- 

 sion, has just returned from the northern part 

 of the state of Minnesota where he was called 

 to investigate flood conditions prevailing on 

 the Lake of the Woods watershed. Damage 



