Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-30
IMPORTANT
DISCOVERIES.
They Were Made By the Expert
ment Station Connected With
the Agricultural College
A SUBSTITUTE FOR LITMUS
Fifteen New Specie of Life Found Near Las
Vegas at an Altitude of ll,0OO
Feet-A Beautiful Wild
-@ Rose,

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190O.-Profess j. j. Vernon, head of
the department of agriculture and hor-
ticulture at the college, is attending as
a delegate from the college, the annual
convention of the Association of Agri-
cultural Colleges, held at New Haven.
Conn.
All departments of the college aud
experiment station will be represented
in the exhibit to be made by the col
lege and station in Ell Paso during the
mid-winter carnival in January. the
exhibit from some departments VIII
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 insti-
tuition.
The foot ball team of the college left
on Tuesday night for Las Vegas, TO
play a match game on the afternoon of
Thanksgiving day with the team Of the
Normal University at that city. Con-
siderable interest was manifested in
this game, as the college team holds the
championship of the territory, won
year ago. The college team Is, howev-
er, lighter this year than for several
years past, but the team has ben care
fully and thoroughly trained, and hope
to retain the territorial championship
The team may stop off at Albuquerque
on the return trip in order to play a
game with the Albuquerque Indian
school team, OH the afternoon OF sat
urday, December 1. w. A. Sutherland
is manager for the college team.
One of the most interesting additions
to the equipment of the college is val
liable consignment received from Mas
lsachusetts for the biological depart
ment. This shipment consists OF
large amount of geological material OBJ
tained principally for study and dissec-
ton by students of the department All
the material is representative of differ
lent forms of marine life, and includes
specimens of sponges, hydrozoans,
worms mollusks, and some of the low
er forms of fishes. All the specimens
are preserved exactly as found and are
perfect representations of their various
types. This addition to the equipment
of the biological department. in addi-
ton to the large number of ornitholo-
gical and MAMMALIAN specimens, and the
various plaster casts heretofore pro-
cured by the department, makes its
J eouipment in these lines by far the best
in the territory.
The amount of original investigation
; being prosecuted by the various depart
ments of the experimental station is
not generally realized by the public.
Recent work by the chronological de-
partment is illustrative of investiga- =
tions undertaken by other departments.
. During last August the station ento-
. mologist and his wife studied the fauna
5 and flora of the Las Vegas range at an
: altitude of about 11,000 feet. As many
a as fifteen species of life there founo
a have proved to be new to science, while
several others have only been found ir
the extreme north, as in Alaska. One
Il of the finest wild roses in America was
discovered and described not long since
. by the botanist of the station, Professor
e, O. Wooton. having been found grow
ing wild in the Organ and Sacramento
mountains. Investigations of this char
acter are not alone valuable to science
Illustrating as they do the great scop
for original work in all lines in this ter
rtory, but are frequently valuable Il
other respects. Not long since small
weed. growing profusely on the mesa
and valleys, was found to possess qual
Iities which apparently make 1T valua
BILE as a substitute for litmus, and 1t
more than possible that this little wee
lean be demonstrated to be valuable t
~ commerce.