A new method of ascertaining the temperature of volcanic fires is being undertaken by Dr. T.A. Jaggar, director of the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, in the crater of Kilauea. Borings 10 feet deep and 1,000 feet apart are being made in the solid rock floor of the crater and as each boring is completed, the temperature at the bottom is taken and recorded, following which the top of the hole is capped with a metal ring in order to preserve it for future readings.
Little tablets of clay with cryptic signs on them, vases carved in the form of death's heads, and other strange and ancient-looking objects dug up in a field in the French village of Glozel, have started off one of the most remarkable controversies in the history of science.
During recent months, a number of prominent French scientists under the guidance of Dr. A. Morlet, [have begun] . . . excavations at the site of the discovery. . . . As a result of their observations, some French scientists now pronounce Glozel one of the most important archaeological discoveries of a hundred years. As to what the great collection of objects means, however, the savants find it impossible to agree.
The past few years have been anxious ones for the cucumber, the chief component of the famous "57 varieties," on account of the presence of mosaic disease. This trouble belongs to the virus group of diseases, the cause of which is not yet known. . . .
O.H. Elmer of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station announces the discovery of a cucumber variety resistant to the mosaic disease. The new variety hails from China and is known as "Chinese Long." Seeds obtained from Prof. R.H. Porter of Nanking, China, were planted in Iowa where greenhouse and field tests were conducted and its disease resistant qualities established.
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