North Highlands Research Articles

Report on Mascaras, Eyebrow Pencils, and Eye Shadows

Journal Article Report on Mascaras, Eyebrow Pencils, and Eye Shadows Get access Paul W Jewel Paul W Jewel Associate Referee Max Factor & Co., 1666 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, Volume 33, Issue 2, 1 May 1950, Page 359, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaoac/33.2.359 Published: 09 February 2020

Notes on the Life History of the Salamander Aneides aeneus

ALTHOUGH plethodontid salamander, Aneides aeneus (Cope), seems to be common in some localities, there are comparatively few records of its occurrence and no life history data from southern portion of its range in Southern Appalachians. It has been reported from only two localities in North Carolina, Highlands (Brimley, 1941) and Bat Cave, Chimney Rock (Weller, 1930), each based on collection of a single specimen. There are single published records for western South Carolina and northeast Alabama (Dunn, 1926, and Brimley, 1941-43) and in Georgia it has been found at several localities in mountainous region, notably Tallulah Gorge in Rabun County (unpublished data of writers and J. C. Nicholls, Jr.). During summer of 1948 we discovered two breeding colonies of this salamander in Highlands, North Carolina region and were able to make measurements and life history observations over a period of about two months. The work was aided by Ward Research Fellowship, awarded by Highlands Biological Laboratory. We are also indebted to Miss Thelma Howell, Resident Director of Laboratory, and Dr. Eugene P. Odum for aid and suggestions in preparation of this paper. The first group of breeding Aneides was found inhabiting a granite cliff near Laboratory at an elevation of 4100 feet within town limits of Highlands, which is located 10 miles north of Georgia line on a high plateau of Blue Ridge. This site, hereafter known as Highlands site, was under observation from June 15 to August 20. Less extensive observations were made at second site, a spectacular granite outcrop known as Granite City, having an elevation of about 3100 feet and located about 10 miles southeast of Highlands in Jackson County, North Carolina (very near common junction of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia). Aneides aeneus has been previously recorded as inhabiting the loose bark of dead trees (Pope, 1928), limestone cliffs (Walker and Goodpasteur, 1941), sandstone cliffs (Bishop, 1943), and quartzite cliffs (Nicholls, personal correspondence). Thus to this list authors add exfoliated surfaces and horizontal crevices of granite cliffs. The granite cliffs in Highlands site were located in a mature hemlock forest with a rhododendron understory. Eggs, immature and mature individuals were collected from crevices which were so densely shaded as to require use of a flashlight in finding salamanders. The crevices admitted little or no water from surface run off, heavy plant growth holding enough moisture to keep atmosphere humid. The sites of eggs within crevices were moist but not wet. No specimens were found in crevices directly exposed to sunlight. A similar situation existed at Granite City site. The depth of crevices at both localities was quite variable. The previous record from Highlands was an individual found August 1, 1938, by Dr. W. C. Coker in his woodpile, which incidentally was located a

Stone Sculpture in the Callejón de Huaylas

One of the most archaeologically significant characteristics of highland Andean cultures is the stone-sculpturing tradition. Most of the reports that have been published to date deal with the more spectacular sites of Tiahuanaco in the south highlands and Chavín de Huántar in the north highlands, but little has appeared to indicate the widespread existence of stone sculpture throughout the Peruvian highlands and the centers where the tradition is particularly strong. It is the purpose of this paper to summarize the stone sculpture in the Callejón de Huaylas area and to indicate its relationship to the accepted archaeological horizons in the north highlands.

Dark-Fired Tobacco Region of the North Highland Rim

Dark-Fired Tobacco Region of the North Highland Rim

The Geological Age of the North Highlands of Scotland

FROM the abstract of Proceedings of the Geological Society (January 5) I learn with surprise that Sir R. Murchison's interpretation of the succession of the beds over the region north of the Caledonian Canal is disputed, and that the relations of the fossiliferous limestone of Durness to the quartzites “are” (according to Dr. Callaway) “by no means satisfactorily established, and that their conformity is rendered dubious by a marked discordance of strike;” in fact that the limestone lies in a synclinal basin amongst the quartzites, so that if the lime stone be of Lower Silurian (“Arenig”) age the quartzites and schists must be older; this I presume to be the inference Dr. Callaway intends to draw, as he says there “is no proof of the Lower Silurian age of the quartzite and newer series of flaggy gneiss and schist” constituting the interior mountainous district.