THE NEW CONE OF MONT PELEE 



THE accompanying photographs 

 by Dr E. O. Hovey show the 

 f, remarkable tooth or spine of 

 solid rock that has pushed up the throat 

 of Mont Pelee since the eruption of May, 

 1902. The peculiar formation has been 

 previously noted in this Magazine (p. 

 167, April, 1903). The photographs were 

 taken by Dr Hovey on his recent trip to 



Martinique and the West Indies in be- 

 half of the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. Dr Hovey's report has 

 recently been published in the American 

 Journal of Science. 



The lofty tooth is rifted and fissured 

 in every direction, and great fragments 

 of it are constantly breaking off. The 

 tooth rests on or is connected with fluid 



The New Spine of Mont Pelee from the Basin of the Lac des Palmistes 



booking about S. 6o° W. The apex is about 358 meters (1,174 feet) above the rim directly 

 in front. The remains of Morne Laeroix are visible at the right on edge of the crater. Photo- 

 graphed March 25, 1903, for the American Museum of Natural History by Dr E. O. Hovey. 



