THE NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS 



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The Most Beautiful Woman in 

 America. 



The Aiisco Company, Binghamton, 

 New York, has spent more than $5,000 

 in trying to find, from the photograph- 

 ers' point of ^'iew, the loveliest woman 



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City. Mr. Conklin writes as follows : 



"The young woman was here af 

 school and the photograph was made- 

 in the ordinary course at the time of 

 her graduation. I probably made six 

 or eight negatives at that time. This 

 ^ was nearly two years ago, 

 and while I always considered 

 it an especially attractive pic- 

 ture, permission to use it was 

 withheld until last fall. 



"Aliss Johnstone is now 

 with the 'Watch Your Step*" 

 nusical comedy company, and 

 I understand that competent 

 uidges have decided that her 

 icatures approach as near the- 

 i'leal as is possible, and that 

 among- numerous other flat- 

 tering attentions, one of the 

 South American Repubhcs 

 has reproduced her head on 

 some of their coinage.'' 



FIRST PRIZE WIXXIXG PORTRAIT 

 COMPANY'S $5,000 LO\'LIEST 

 WOMEN CONTEST. 



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The United States Bureau 

 of Standards calls attention to^ 

 the fact that almost no Amer- 

 ican units are precisely equal' 

 to those called by the same 

 name in Great Britain. Yard 

 and pound are nearly alike;: 

 but our gallon is only five- 

 sixths of the imperial gallon, 

 and our bushel is thirty-two 

 thirty-thirds of the imperial' 

 half a micromilemeter, or 

 bushel. Even the two stand- 

 ard meters dififer by more than 



$500, first prize won by Philip Conklin. Troy, New York; subject, , r i ' 



Miss Justine Johnstone. New York City. This portrait, togrether with the abOUt OUC five-thoUSandth OI 

 entire collection of prize winners, is now on e.xhibition at tho .Ansco linlf 

 Company's booth at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, ndll 

 California, is" 



Published by courtesy of the .\nsco Company. Binghampton, New 

 York. 



a micromilemeter, or 

 an inch. 



in America, and incidentally the pho- 

 tographer sufficiently skillful to por- 

 tray that woman. The first prize of 

 $500 was awarded to Philip Conklin 

 of Troy, New York, who photographed 

 Miss Justine Johnstone of New York 



Examination of the- stomach contents 

 of bats indicates that their food is more- 

 than nine-tenths moths, the rest being 

 beetles and other insects. Attempts to- 

 utilize these animals to keep down mos- 

 quitoes have therefore failed. 



