SCIENCE-GOSSTP. 
visible, have caused figures of various shapes to be 
cut out on the faces of certain hills, exhibiting the 
The White 
Horse, in Berkshire, is perhaps the best known of 
white surface of the Chalk below the turf. 
any of these, and occupies nearly an acre of ground. 
There is another White Horse near Westbury, in 
Wiltshire. 
horseback appears on the 
chalk hill facing Weymouth. 
These white 
very ancient, and are sup- 
George IIT. on 
horses are 
posed to be old tribal or 
kingdom boundary marks. 
That near Weymouth exis- 
ted far beyond the period 
of George the Third’s 
visit, his effigy being added 
commemoration, 
Near Cerne 
is the figure of a giant, 180 
feet in height. On the 
Chiltern range is Whiteleaf 
Cross, said 
as a 
Abbas there 
to have been 
xons in 
cut by the 
the year 570 to commem- 
orate their victory over the 
Danes. By the courtesy 
of the London, Brighton 
and South Coast Railway 
Company, we illustrate the 
Long Man of Wilmington. 
It is a gigantic figure 
cut on the grassy slope of the Northern side of the 
South Downs, overlooking the railway line from 
Tue Lonc Man oF WILMINGTON, Sussex. 
Lewes to Eastbourne, near the village of Wilmington. 
The figure is said to be over 200 feet in length. 
(*) These blocks are reproduced from the ‘* South 
Coast Quarterly” by courtesy of the Editor, and the 
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company. 
(To te continued.) 
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199 
HYDROGRAPHY AND FISHERIES. 
ye) a result of the Stockholm Fisheries Conference 
held last summer, it is expected that European 
fisheries will, in the near future, be conducted on a 
much more scientific plan than hitherto. 
An impor 
AT SEAFORD, St 
tant staff is to be appointed, whose principal duties 
will be to conduct hydrographical research in the 
oceans and seas of the northern 
hemisphere. These investiga- 
extend to a 
exact knowledge of the habits 
tions will more 
of fish, their vertical distribu- 
tion in the water and the causes 
for different species occupying 
certain depths of water strata. 
The biological work generally, 
is to include the determination 
of the topographical and 
bathymetrical distribution of 
eggs and larvae of marine 
economic fishes. Special at- 
tention is to be paid to the 
local distribution of the post- 
their local 
environment. Migration, the 
sources of food, natural ene- 
larval stages and 
mies, and other circumstances, 
. which affect the abundance 
> or scarcity of fish at certain 
times and seasons, will be 
In fact, there lies a wide field fox 
which will directly affect the 
Considering the immense im- 
investigated. 
scientific research, 
welfare of mankind. 
portance of the fisheries as a source of food supply, 
it is none too soon to apply trained knowledge and 
investigation to prevent the existing waste. 
