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i'(H'(Mit years the supply of i-adiuni has \)vvn aiij^nieiit(Ml from 

 the minei'al known as earnotite, which is found in Coloi'ado, 

 Arizona and Utah. 



As j)art of tlie rachuni exliihit which is to he installed in 

 the Museum, in connection with the reception to Madanu* 

 Curie on Ma}' seventeenth, it is planned to show a lar^x* 

 number of these ra(Ho-active substances, tog;ether with photo- 

 graphic negatives on which have been produced shadow 

 radiographs from these vaiious minerals as sources of radio- 

 activit}'. In this way, a very fitting expression of wx^come 

 to Madame Curie upon her visit to New York will be this 

 demonstration to the i^iblic of the scope and importance of 

 her life work. 



Herbert P. Whitlock. 



// the invention of the ship was thought so nohJe, lohich car- 

 n'eth riches and commodities from place to place, and conwcia- 

 teth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how 

 fnuch more are letters to he magnified, ivhich, as ships, pass 

 through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant partici- 

 pate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the 

 other. 



Sir Walter I^aleigh. 



