Marshland Areas Research Articles

Use of High Silicon Cast Iron for Anodes

Abstract Data are tabulated from questionnaire replies received from more than 100 companies pertaining to use of high silicon cast iron for anodes. Of the 230 installations for which data were reported, 53 percent concerned ground bed applications, 37 percent fresh water and 10 percent salt water. In general, data indicate high silicon cast iron anodes are at least equal to graphite anodes in ground bed applications where coke breeze backfill is utilized and superior in marshland and other areas where backfill is impractical. In fresh water applications high silicon cast iron anodes perform very well so long as the temperature does not exceed 125 F. At high temperatures the molybdenum containing alloy is preferred as is also the case in many brackish or salt water applications where the temperature may exceed 100 F. 6.2.2

Fern Miscellany: Brooklyn

Brooklyn, of all five boroughs of Greater New York, is probably least blessed in sites suitable for the persistence of native species of ferns. While there are many hundreds of acres which have not been built upon, most of such acreage comprises either salt-marshland or regions of grading and fill. It is not impossible that there may exist some small areas of natural marshland where the Osmundas may be found. I have found O. spectabilis on one of the narrow sand strips which border the ocean side of Great South Bay (Oak Island Beach). Even Manhattan, despite is great encrustations of asphalt, brick, and cement has at least some areas of rocky outcrops, including the park section at its northern end. The Bronx has the hundreds of acres along the Bronx River included within the Botanical Garden and Zoological Park area, where woods of native hemlock and other trees offer sites for ferns. Similarly, Queens Borough, although I cannot vouch for any specific ferns, offers park reservations which carry westward the conditions under which a number of species flourish on Long Island in general. Richmond-Staten Island-is the least citified of all five boroughs from its former state. While I have made no recent visit there, its central areas must still offer sites for the persistence of Dryopteris Goldiana and other related wood ferns, and its marshy woods presumably still provide sites for the Massachusetts fern, the narrow chain fern, and others. In earlier days, the area now lying within the boundaries of Kings County (Brooklyn) must have had approximately the same fern flora as adjacent Long Island regions still offer. When road traffic permits, it is still 148

The First Inflation of R100

WHEN in 1925 the Airship Guarantee Company entered into possession of the remains of the old R.N.A.S. Airship Station of Howden, this once spacious and well‐equipped aerodrome was reduced, as a result of its post‐war vicissitudes, to a single airship shed standing in a sadly reduced area of marsh land, strewn with an infinite variety of debris, which the vendor's once enthusiastic clients had abandoned under the depressing influence of falling prices.

NEW JERSEY'S WORK IN MOSQUITO CONTROL

The seems to be known everywhere and has given our state an unenviable notoriety all around the world. As a matter of fact, the mosquito is no worse in New Jersey than in any other seaboard state having large areas of salt marsh land. In Connecticut, New York, and especially Long Island, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and all the states bordering on the Atlantic seaboard, the same problem exists, and exists as acutely as it does in New Jersey; but the millions of visitors to the coast resorts of this state have been the means of our opprobrious advertisement in all corners of the globe. Living in an era of intensive research and practical achievement, we cannot appreciate the passive attitude, of accepting pests, such as the mosquito, and other health scourges without an attempt at relief when the methods of relief are practical and efficient. It is not