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been represented by workers there and a con- 

 siderable amount of material has been pub- 

 lished, based wholly or in part of investiga- 

 tions carried on there. This year it will be 

 under the control of Drs. Neal and Kingsley, 

 who have carried it on for several years, and 

 all inquiries concerning rooms and other ac- 

 commodations should be directed to Dr. H. V. 

 Neal, Tufts College, Mass., until June 17; 

 after that date to him at South Harpswell, Me. 

 The laboratory, at most, can accommodate but 

 fifteen workers at a time, and already consid- 

 erable part of its space is engaged for at least 

 a part of the summer. 



It is announced that the biological labora- 

 tory of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 

 at Fairport, Iowa, will be opened for investi- 

 gators on June 15, and is expected to remain 

 in active operation until about September 1. 

 Those desiring to have the use of tables and 

 other facilities for investigation may com- 

 municate with the commissioner of fisheries, 

 Washington, D. C, or with the director of the 

 Fairport station, Fairport, Iowa. The station 

 is well equipped with laboratory and collecting 

 apparatus, as well as with ponds and tanks, and 

 supplies of river water and filtered water. 



WiLHELM Engelmann, of Leipzig and Ber- 

 lin, announces the publication of the Inter- 

 nationale Zeitschrift filr physikalischechem- 

 ische Biologie. The editor is Dr. J. Traube, 

 of Charlottenburg, with the assistance of Pro- 

 fessor H. J. Hamburger, of Groningen, 

 Dr. v. Henri, of Paris, and Dr. J. Loeb, of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, New York. The periodical will appear 

 at irregular intervals, six parts forming a vol- 

 ume. It is hoped that about three volumes 

 will be issued in the course of the year. 



Dr. von Le Coq, the distinguished explorer, 

 has promised, as we learn from the London 

 Times, to lecture on his recent tour in Chinese 

 Turkestan before the Royal Asiatic Society in 

 the autumn. Writing from Berlin a few days 

 ago he states that the results of his last jour- 

 ney have been very satisfactory, both in quality 

 and quantity. His collections fill 152 eases. 

 He worked mainly at Kucha and at Tumshug, 



near Maralbashi. At Maralbashi he found a 

 number of true Gandhara sculptures, some be- 

 ing exact counterparts of sculptures in slate in 

 existing collections. But the finds, instead of 

 being carved from Himalayan slate, were 

 moulded in clay and plaster, some of the 

 moulds being found alongside. Many of the 

 " sculptures " were still covered with paint and 

 gold leaf. He also discovered manuscripts, the 

 first, it is believed, ever found at Tumshug. 

 Some of these were in Sanskrit, and others, 

 perfectly preserved, in an Iranian language. 

 Other finds were a small but fine cornice, deco- 

 rated in pure Sassanian style, and a number of 

 heads of Sassanian knights; some good 

 bronzes and statuettes in wood. 



The national forest reservation conmiission 

 has approved the purchase of the Pisgah For- 

 est from the estate of the late George W. Van- 

 derbilt, at an average price of five dollars an 

 acre. The tract consists of 86,700 acres and 

 the total cost is therefore $433,500. The price 

 paid is less than the average for other tracts 

 already acquired, although the Pisgah Forest 

 has been developed by its former owner into 

 one of the best forest properties in the coun- 

 try. This is the second time that the com- 

 mission has had the purchase of this tract 

 under consideration. Once before, during Mr. 

 Vanderbilt's lifetime, the question of its pur- 

 chase was taken up, but the commission did 

 not deem it advisable to purchase it at that 

 time. The tract includes portions of Tran- 

 sylvania, Henderson, Buncombe and Hayward 

 counties, in North Carolina. It covers the en- 

 tire eastern slope and portions of the north- 

 ern and western slopes of the Pisgah range, 

 one of the most prominent of the southern 

 Appalachians. Its forests infiuence for the 

 most part tributaries of the French Broad 

 River which unites with the Holstein River 

 at Knoxville, Tennessee, to form the Ten- 

 nessee River. In accordance with Mrs. Van- 

 derbilt's desire, the national forest reserva- 

 tion commission will retain the name of 

 "Pisgah Forest"; in fact, the general area, 

 in which this forest is located and in which 

 other purchases may be made, is already desig- 

 nated as the " Pisgah Area." It is proposed 



