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SCIENCE 



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since 1914 and the fact that the work has been 

 continued at all has been due to the efforts of 

 the general seci-etarj', Dr. Charles Marie. 



Plans for providing a certain and sufficient 

 budget for the work during the next five years 

 are in preparation, based upon definite annual 

 contributions from the various countries in the 

 International Union. 



It is announced that the National Research 

 Council of Japan has appointed the following 

 advisory committee for Annual Tables: Tasu- 

 hiko Asahina, Eiji Aoyagi, Kotaro Honda, 

 Katsuji Inouye, Gen-itsu Kita, Koichi Matsu- 

 bara, Tsuruzo Matsumura, Seiji Nakamura, 

 Kyoji Suyehiro, Umetaro Suzuki, Takuro Ta- 

 maru, Mitsumaru Tsujimoto, Nobuji Yamaga, 

 Noboru Yamaguti. The chairman of the com- 

 mittee is Professor Yukichi Osaka, Japanese 

 member of the International Commission in 

 charge of Annual Tables. 



ALASKA PENINSULA FISHERIES 

 RESERVATION 



Under date of February 17, 1922, an Execu- 

 tive order was promulgated creating the Alaska 

 Peninsula Fisheries Reservation, extending east- 

 ward from the Aleutian Islands Reservation to 

 a line from Foggy Cape, on the eastern end of 

 Sutwik Island, to Cape Menshikof, on the 

 northern shore of the Alaska Peninsula, and in- 

 cluding the Shumagin Islands and the terri- 

 torial waters adjacent to these lands and also 

 the lands of the Aleutian Islands Reservation. 

 The Secretary of Commerce is given power to 

 make regulations for the proper administration 

 of the newly created reservation and the waters 

 covered by the executive order. The text of the 

 order follows : 



EXECUTIVE ORDER 



In addition to the islands of the Aleutian Chain, 

 Alaska, withdrawn and made a preserve and 

 breeding ground for native birds, for the propa- 

 gation of reindeer and fur-bearing animals, and 

 for the encouragement and development of fish- 

 eries, by the executive order of March 3, 1913 

 (No. 1733), as modified by the executive order 

 of August 11, 1916 (No. 2442), a reservation 

 comprising the islands, peninsulas, and lands ad- 

 joining the eastern end of the reservation estab- 

 lished by the said executive order of March 3, 



1913, and extending in an easterly and northerly 

 direction from Isanotski Strait to a line extending 

 from low-water mark at Foggy Cape, on the east- 

 ern end of Sutwik Island, to low-water mark at 

 Cape Menshikof, on the northern shore of the 

 Alaska Peninsula, including the Shumagin Islands 

 and all other islands, peninsulas, or parts thereof 

 within the described area, is hereby set apart as 

 a preserve to more effectively insure the protection 

 of the fisheries and for their encouragement and 

 development. This latter reservation is to be 

 known as the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reserva- 

 tion. 



It is hereby further ordered that all straits, 

 bays, and other waters over which the United 

 States has jurisdiction by reason of their rela- 

 tion and proximity to the islands, peninsulas, and 

 other lands to which this order, as well as the said 

 order of March 3, 1913, applies, be and the same 

 are hereby reserved and set apart also as a pre- 

 serve to more effectively insure the protection of 

 the fisheries and for their encouragement and 

 development. 



The secretary of commerce shall have power to 

 make regulations for the proper administration of 

 the said Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Eeservation, 

 and the straits, bays, and other waters reserved 

 by this executive order. 



The establishment of the reservation under this 

 executive order shall not interfere with the use of 

 the waters, islands, or other lands for lighthouse, 

 military, naval, or other public purposes, nor with 

 the use of any of said islands or other lands under 

 the laws of the United States for town- site pur- 

 poses, mining purposes, or grazing of animals 

 thereupon, under rules and regulations to be estab- 

 lished by the secretary of the interior. 



(Signed) Warren G. Harding 



The White House, February 17, 1922. 



A hearing was called for April 4 at the 

 bureau's office in Seattle, when statements were 

 received from those interested and information 

 secured as a basis for regulations for the con- 

 trol of fishing in the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries 

 Reservation. 



THE FLORA OF PORTO RICO 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director in chief of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, has returned from 

 Porto Rico, after three months spent in an in- 

 tensive study of the Porto Riean flora. Dr. 

 Britton reports a very successful trip and the 



