El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-28
MESILLA PARK T
News of the Agricultural College -
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BILE Biological Collie CtioD.-Ori9
inal Work as the College That Is
of Value to Science and Com
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Correspondence of the HERALD

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Correspondence of the HERALD
Professor j. ]. Vernon. head of the
department of agriculture n horti-
culture at the college at Mesilla Park.
is attending. as a delegate from the
college. the annual convention of the
association of agricultural colleges, be-
ing held at New Haven. Conn.
All departments of the college n
experiment station at Mesilla al
will be represented in the exhibit to
be made by the college and station in
Ell Paso during the Midwinter Carni-
val in January The exhibit from
some departments will necessarily be
limited. whilst others will make more
extensive displays of the work done.
Several interesting features are being
prepared, and the whole exhibit will
probably be the most complete ever
made by the institution.
The foot ball team of the territorial
college at Mesilla Park will leave that
station on Tuesday night. the 9th,
inst, for Las Vegas. where it will play
a match game on the afternoon Of
Thanksgiving day with the team of the
Normal university mt that city. Con-
siderable interest is being manifested
in this game. as the college team dc
the championship of the territory. won
a ear ago. The college team is, how
ever. lighter this year than for sew
eral years past. but the team has been
carefully and thoroughly trained and
hopes to retain the territorial cham
p~ionship. The team may stop off at
Albuquerque on the return trip in Or
der to play a game with the Albuquer-
que Indian school team, on the after
noon of Saturday. December LIST. w.
a sutherland iS rpnnnoor Df fha aol
lege team.
One of the most interesting addi-
lions to the equipment of the college
at Mesilla Park is a valuable consign-
ment received o Massachusetts for
the biological department. This ship
ment consists of a large amount of
geological material obtained principal
ly for study and dissection by students
of the department. All the material is
representative of different forms of
marine life, and includes specimens of
sponses. hydrozoans, worms. molluSkS
and some of the lower forms of fishes.
All the specimens are preserved ex-
actly as found and are perfect repre-
sentationS of their various types. This
addition to the equipment of the bio
logical department, in addition to the
large number or pathological and
mammalian specimens, and the various
plaster casts heretofore procured by
the department, makes its equipment
in these lines by far the best in the
The Mount of original investiga-
ton being prosecuted by the various
of the experiment station
at Mesilla Par is not generally re-
allied by the public. Recent work by |
the chronological department is illus
trative of Investigations undertaken
by other departments. During last
August the station entomologist and
his wife studied the fauna and fora
of the Las Vegas range at an altitude ,
OF about eleven thousand feet. AS |
many as fifteen species of life there |
found have proved to be new to science
while several others have only been
found in the extreme north. as in Alas
One of the finest wild roses in |
was discovered and described |
not long since by the botanist of the
Professor +. o. Wooton. hav-
ing been found growing wild in the
and Sacramento mountains. In
of this character are not
alone valuable to science. illustrating !
as they do the great scope for origi-
work in all lines in this territory. !
but are frequently valuable in other
respects. Not long since n small weed,
profusely on the mesas and
valleys, was ound to possess qualities ,
apparently make it valuable as
a substitute for ltmus, and it is more
than possible that this little weed can
be demonstrated to be valuable to COM
merce.