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SCIENCE 



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in the United States; and in 1895 only 15. 

 Since then, however, the industry has grown 

 rapidly; in 1913 there were 117 plants. 



Professor Charles E. Porter, occupying 

 the chair of general zoology and applied ento- 

 mology and director of the recently estab- 

 lished museum and laboratory of economic 

 zoology at the National Agricultural Institute 

 of Santiago, Chili, has undertaken the publi- 

 cation of a new scientific journal under the 

 title " Anales de Zoologia Aplicada." This 

 journal is to be especially devoted to original 

 studies on species beneficial to and parasitic 

 on man, domesticated animals and cultivated 

 plants in America. The " Eevista Chilena de 

 Historia Natural," edited by Professor Porter, 

 is being continued, but only for systematic 

 papers. The " Anales de Zoologia Aplicada " 

 will be published quarterly, illustrated with 

 text figures and when necessary with plain or 

 colored plates. It will accept original contri- 

 butions on American parasites. 



" Art and Archeology " is the title of a 

 new non-technical illustrated magazine pub- 

 lished by the Areheological Institute of Amer- 

 ica, the first number of which bears the date 

 of July, 1914. During the present year four 

 numbers will be issued, but commencing with 

 1915 the magazine will appear monthly. Its 

 fifty pages are devoted to articles covering a 

 considerable range, and to minor notes and 

 brief book reviews. The editorial staff con- 

 sists of: General Editor, David Moore Robin- 

 son, Johns Hopkins University; Advisory Edi- 

 tor, Allan Marquand, Princeton University; 

 Art Editor, William H. Holmes, Smithsonian 

 Institution; Associate Editor, Ralph Van De- 

 man Magoffin, Johns Hopkins University; 

 Qpntributing Editors, H. Rushton Fairclough, 

 Stanford University, Charles H. Weller, Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, Albert T. Clay, Tale Univer- 

 sity, Frederick W. Hodge, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Charles T. Currelly, Royal Ontario 

 Museum, George H. Edgell, Harvard Univer- 

 sity; Managing Editor, Mitchell Carroll, Gen- 

 eral Secretary, Areheological Institute of 

 America, The Octagon, Washington, D. C. 



A group representing a number of deep-sea 

 luminous fishes has been completed in the 



American Museum of Natural History and 

 opened to the public. It represents ten species 

 of fishes found in the depths of the sea, half a 

 mile or more from the surface. Some of the 

 fishes are provided with rows of luminous or- 

 gans or with headlights, while others have a 

 light at the end of a tentacle with which to at- 

 tract their prey. The group is illuminated by 

 electricity in such a way that the fishes may 

 be viewed first as synoptic specimens in a case 

 and secondly, as if they were living fishes 

 swimming in the darkness of the deep sea, 

 lighted by their own luminous or phosphores- 

 cent organs. 



A LITTLE more than 33,000 acres in the 

 White Mountains have been approved for pur- 

 chase by the government at a meeting of the 

 national forest reservation commission. These 

 areas are in two separate tracts, both in 

 Grafton county, New Hampshire, the larger 

 containing 31,100 acres on the watershed of the 

 Pemigewasset River, a tributary to the Merri- 

 mac. The tract comes within a mile of North 

 Woodstock on the Boston and Maine railroad, 

 and several good roads lead through it. The 

 land is between YOO and 4,300 feet in elevation, 

 and in the lower valleys are a number of 

 abandoned farms now grown up to trees. Most 

 of the conifers have been cut to make paper 

 pulp, but there are good stands of beech, birch 

 and maple of considerable value. With fire 

 kept out there is said to be excellent promise 

 of a new stand of spruce. The price agreed 

 upon by the government is $4.62 an acre in- 

 cluding both land and timber. The smaller 

 purchase consists of several areas lying on 

 the watersheds of Little River and Gale River, 

 both tributaries of the Connecticut. These 

 lands cover 2,000 acres and are contiguous to 

 lands already approved for purchase; hence 

 they go far toward giving the government a 

 solid body of land in this locality. The price 

 for the 2,000 acres, land and timber, is $4.00 

 an acre. The tract is in the locality of the 

 noted Eranconia Range and is readily acces- 

 sible from two railroad stations, Bethlehem 

 and Twin Mountain. The forest has been cut 

 over and consists chiefly of the northern hard- 

 woods, though some spruce remains from the 



