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times in three tiers. These rooms are 

 small and usually dark, the only en- 

 trance being often a small doorway 

 which served also for window and 

 chimney. 



The kivas, one of which is shown in 

 the illustration, are curious structures, 

 probably survivals of pit-houses of an 

 antecedent people. Two walls enclose 

 the circular room, on the inner of 

 which rest six pedestals which support 

 the roof beams consisting of cedar logs 

 cut with stone axes. The fire-place is 

 in the floor and there is a second de- 

 pression which is a symbolic opening 

 into the under-world. In addition to 

 the kivas there are two other circular 

 rooms and several rectangular rooms, 

 which were probably used for cere- 

 monial purposes. There is also a mor- 

 tuary room, in which several skeletons 

 have been found. 



The culture was apparently self-cen- 

 tered; the people were farmers, timid, 

 industrious and superstitious; they 

 seem never to have ventured far from 

 home and seldom met strangers; the 

 language they spoke is unknown. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We regret to record the death of 

 Dr. William Torry Harris, for many 

 years U. S. Commissioner of Education 

 and eminent for his contributions to 

 education and philosophy. 



The Copley medal of the Royal So- 

 ciety has been awarded to Dr. G. W. 

 Hill, the eminent American astron- 

 omer. — Dr. Theodore W. Richards, 

 professor of chemistry at Harvard 

 University, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. — Professor J. H. Van 

 Amringe, head of the department of 

 mathematics in Columbia University, 

 and dean of the college, will retire 

 from active service at the end of the 

 present academic year, when he will 

 have completed fifty years of service 

 for the institution and reached his 

 seventy-fifth birthday. 



Mk. John D. Rockefeller has given 

 the sum of $1,000,000 to combat the 

 hookworm disease and has selected a 

 commission to administer the fund 

 which includes Dr. William H. Welch, 

 professor of pathology in Johns hop- 

 kins University; Dr. Simon Flexner, 

 director of Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, and Dr. Ch. Wardell 

 Stiles, chief of the division of zoology, 

 United States Public Health and Ma- 

 rine Hospital Service, discoverer of the 

 prevalence of the disease in America. 



By the will of John Stewart Ken- 

 nedy, the banker of New York City, 

 who died on October 31, in his eightieth 

 year, bequests are made for public pur- 

 poses amounting to some $30,000,000. 

 The bequests depend on the size of the 

 estate and the amounts are conserva- 

 tive estimates. They include seven 

 bequests of $2,225,000 each, respect- 

 ively, for Columbia University, the 

 New York Public Library, the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art, the Presby- 

 terian Hospital in New York City, and 

 to three of the boards of the Presby- 

 terian Church; of $1,500,000 to Robert 

 College, Constantinople, and to the 

 United Charities of New York; $750,- 

 000 to New York University and the 

 Charity Organization Society of New 

 York for its School of Philanthropy; 

 $100,000 to the University of Glasgow, 

 Yale University, Amherst College, Wil- 

 liams College, Dartmouth College, 

 Bowdoin College, Hamilton College, 

 the Protestant College at Beirut, the 

 Tuskegee Institute and Hampden In- 

 stitute; $50,000 to Lafayette College, 

 Oberlin College, Wellesley College, 

 Barnard College (Columbia Univer- 

 sity), Teachers College (Columbia 

 University), Elmira College, Northfield 

 Seminary, Berea College, Mt. Hermon 

 Boys' School and Anatolia College, 

 Turkey; $25 000 to Lake Forest Uni- 

 versity and Center College; $20,000 to 

 Cooper Union. There are also a num- 

 ber of other bequests to hospitals and 

 charities. 



