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GENERAL NOTES. 
A TREE AS A FRATRICIDE AND CANNIBAL.—On the bank of the 
West Nishnabatona river, near Tabor, Iowa, there stands a large a 
sycamore, Platanus occidentalis. About ten feet from it is me 
decayed stump of another of the same species, The diameter of 
each is about three feet. 2 
