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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1253 



be published in English? Germany has fur- 

 nished public funds when the publisher of 

 technical data was not able to sell enough 

 copies to make a profit. Can't the English 

 people do as well ? 



The population of Germany was less than 

 67,000,000 before the war, and suppose that we 

 consider the German-speaking people to be 

 100,000,000, we find that the United States of 

 America alone has over 100,000,000 people. If 

 we add to this the British Empire with about 

 438,000,000 we find it likely that about five 

 times as many people speak English as speak 

 German. There is more reason to have the 

 world's scientific literature in English than to 

 have it in German. 



We, as biologists, do not realize how com- 

 pletely Germany had our scientific confidence 

 until we pick up a work like the "Interna- 

 tional Catalogue of Scientific Literature," pub- 

 lished in London. Turning to section L of 

 this index, which is general biology, we find 

 that of the 286 journals being quoted from be- 

 fore the war, 169 were German, 49 English, 25 

 Eussian, 14 French, 10 Dutch, 8 Danish, 6 

 Hungarian, 3 Polish and 2 'Swedish. In the 

 German list have been placed the 20 Austrian 

 journals, which are essentially German, 5 

 printed in Switzerland and 2 in Poland. Of 

 the 49 English journals, 36 are printed in the 

 United States. The French journals are scat- 

 tered. Three are printed in Switzerland, two 

 in Eussia and one in Poland. 



Feank a. Spragg 



East Lansing, Mich, 



a flowing artesian well at winslow, 



MAINE 



"WiNSLOW, Maine, is situated on the east 

 bank of the Kennebec Eiver about 83 miles 

 north of Portland. It is directly opposite the 

 city of Waterville, and the buildings of Colby 

 College look across the river upon the artesian 

 area to be described. 



The Hollingsworth & Wbitney Company, on 

 whose property the flowing well is, has drilled 

 seventeen wells in the last nineteen years. The 

 first series was drilled in 1899 and is described 



in Water Supply Paper 223.^ At this time 

 there were seven wells from 110 to 125 feet 

 deep.^ These are said to have gradually filled 

 with sand, \mtil in 1906 they were about 90 

 feet deep. At this time they were abandoned 

 because of insufficient supply for the purpose 

 desired and river water substituted. 



Since the paper referred to above was writ- 

 ten, and especially in the last five years, the 

 company has shown renewed interest in drilled 

 wells. In 1913-'14 iovr wells were drilled 

 with depths of 240, 250, 27Y and 260 feet; in 

 1916 two, with depths of 306 and 269 ; in 1917 

 most of the wells drilled in 1899 were again 

 brought into use; and in 1918 four wells were 

 added which were 315, 286,308 and 317 feet in 

 depth. The total water supply of these wells, 

 by pumping, is estimated at 275,000-300,000 

 gallons in 24 hours. The casing, in most in- 

 stances at least, is six-inch. The water is 

 utilized for making acid used in the manu- 

 facture of sulphite pulp.5 



Successful drilled wells are rather common 

 in the slate area of southern Maine; 88 per 

 cent, of those undertaken furnish at least a 

 gallon a minute according to Clapp.* Flowing 

 wells in slate are far less common and when 

 struck seldom furnish over three gallons a 

 minute.^ Previously to the one described be- 

 low none were known in Kennebec county and 

 probably none within a radius of over 50 miles. 

 The well 286 feet deep drilled for the Hollings- 

 worth & Whitney Company is 1918 is there- 

 fore of special interest since it is a flowing 

 well. A photograph furnished me shows the 

 water flowing from a vertical six-inch casing 

 at a height of about three feet above the 

 ground. This flow, without pumping, was esti- 

 mated to be about 60 gallons per minute; cer- 

 tainly, as can be seen from the photograph, 



1 "Underground Waters of Southern Maine," by 

 Frederick G. Clapp, with records of deep wells by 

 W. S. Bayley, Washington, 1909. 



2 Ibid., 154. 



3 Data kindly furnished by Mr. George H. Marr, 

 engineer for the Hollingsworth & Whitney Com- 

 pany. 



^Ibid., p. 61. 

 6 Hid., p. 35. 



