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Continued From First Paea.)
theoretical possibility that it might
Solidlfy in the ultimate cold itself.
Expands With Cooling.

solidify in the ultimate cold itself.
Expands With Cooling.
But. DR.. Allen reported, when the
lquified gas passes critical point Of
PIG degrees above absolute zero a
strange change takes place suddenly
tirely different from anything else
known in creation. Up to this point 1t
has been normal liquid. Then 1t
passes into state where all ordinary
laws for liquids. or anything else
known to physicists, are reverses This
Helium III. as it has been called. ex-
pands with cooling instead of heating.
1t possesses an enormously high spe-
clfic heat locked in its molecules
which, If brought suddenly up to roor,
temperature, would turn into boil
ing inferno. 1t conducts heat at an
efnclency 500 times that of copper
wire at room temperature And it is
liquid with viScosity, or capacity of
its molecules to stick together, con-
Siderably less than that of a gas. One
test shows practically no viscosity
at all
NewFound Creature Reported.
A newly discovered creature ont of
the nightmare OF the ancient pasta
black. phosphoreScent relative of the
octopus. which hugs sea bottoms, has
nsh-llke fms. and carries its tentacles
IN Weblike pockets--was described to
biologists of the association by DR.. G..
E. Plckford
1T has been named the vampv.,,
morpha. 1t is small sea animal.
DR.. Pickford made an intensive study
OF two specimens found in the Yale
University collection Hitherto these
specimens, both OF imma ture females,
have been classified as Queer types
of octopuses. The detailed anatomy
shows, he said. that they are really
much more primitive creatures. per-
maps close TO the common ancestor of
the octopus and other similar mem
oers of the highest type of mollusks.
An outstanding character is the diff
fuSeneSs OF the central nervous svs-
tenn. Out of some such structure
through many millions OF years the
octopus has built up an intelligence
comparable to that of vertebrates
| although entirely different in the ele-
ments with which it works. The
vampyromorpha is closer to the ter
rors Of the oceans of nearly a half
! billion years ago
Imprisoned Ice Sheet.
Discovery of one of the weirdest
places On earth, chasm more than
800 miles long and about Is miles wide,
hemmed in on both sides by mountains
reaching heights of 5000 feet and
| filled with ice 5000 feet thick was an.
nounced for the first time before the
association today by G. c. L. Bert
ram, member Of the British Graham
Land expedition which returned last
I winter after three years in this Ant
arctic desolation.
1t Is the first spot on the map to be
given the name of the new Kine.
George the Sixth.
King George the Sixth Sound as
described by Mr.. Bertrsm, separates
Graham Land, in the Antarctic Ocean
ooutii vi TdtdSOIlla. from Alexander
the First Island on the west. dis
covered more than a century ago by
Russian expedition. Up to the pres
ent he said, southern Graham Land
has been one of the great unknowns
practically all the information con.
corning it having been obtained bv
Sir Hubert Wilkins in his Antarctic
flight in 1928. From these observa-
tions it was assumed that it consti-
tuted an Antarctic archipelago of
several islands
To the contrary, Mr.. Bertram re-
ported. it turns out to be a single
narrow peninsula of the Antarctic
continent along whose western side
runs continuation OF the main chain
Of the Andes mountains and the ar.
chlpelago" vanishes from the map.
The King George Sixth Sound, he
said, is particularly remarkable be-
cause it affords the only known ex-
ample OF an imprisoned ice sheet
where the ice has piled up century
after century to the great thickness
Of 5000 feet.