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THE

AMERICANA

A Universal Reference Library

COMPRISING THE ARTS AND SCIENCES,
LITERATURE, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY,
GEOGRAPHY, COMMERCE, ETC.,
OF THE WORLD

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

FREDERICK CONVERSE BEACH

MANAGING EDITOR

GEORGE EDWIN RINES

ASSISTED BY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND OF THE MOST EMINENT SCHOLARS

AND AUTHORITIES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE

ILLUSTRATED

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN COMPILING DEPARTMENT

225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1912

BY

FREDERICK CONVERSE BEACH

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ZOOLOGY

DAVID STARR JORDAN, Ph.D., LL.D. President of Leland Stanford Jr. University

ENGLISH LITERATURE WILLIAM P. TRENT, A.M., LL.D. Professor of English Literature, Columbia University

WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, A.M. Professor of English, Columbia University

AMERICAN LITERATURE EDWARD EVERETT HALE, S.T.D., LL.D. Author of "The Man Without a Country"

CLASSICAL LITERATURE
JAMES H. KIRKLAND, Ph.D., LL.D.
Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
ARCHITECTURE AND THE FINE ARTS

RUSSELL STURGIS, F.A.I.A.
Author of "Dictionary of Architecture"
RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
SYLVESTER BURNHAM, D.D.
Dean of Hamilton Theological Seminary,
Colgate University

REV. P. A. HALPIN

Saint Angela's College, New Rochelle, N. Y.
MEDICINE

SMITH_ELY JELLIFFE, M.D., Ph.D.
Editor "Medical News."

CHEMISTRY

ALLAN DOUGLAS RISTEEN, Ph.D.
Hartford, Conn.

MINERALOGY

GEORGE LETCHWORTH ENGLISH

New York

LAW

HENRY M. EARLE

New York

ELECTRICITY

WILLIAM MAVER, JR., C.E.
Consulting Electrical Engineer, New York
ENGINEERING AND MACHINERY
WILLIAM MOREY, JR., C.E.
Consulting Civil and Mechanical Engineer
New York

STEEL

ALBERT SAUVEUR, S.B.

Professor of Metallurgy, Harvard University

JUDAISM

ABRAM S. ISAACS, A.M., Ph.D.

Professor of Semitic Languages, New York
University

HISTORY OF THE NATIONS

UNITED STATES

ANDREW C. MCLAUGHLIN, A.M.
Editor of "American Historical Review"

CANADA

GEORGE MCKINNON WRONG, A.M.
Professor of History, University of Toronto
CHARLES WILLIAM COLBY, A.M., Ph.D.
Professor of History, McGill University

MEXICO

ELISHA HOLLINGSWORTH TALBOT Author Commercial and Industrial Mexico"

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GREAT BRITAIN

HALFORD JOHN MACKINDER, M.A. Director of the School of Economics and Political Science in the University of London

GERMANY

HUGO MÜNSTERBURG, Ph.D., LL.D. Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

FRANCE

HON. HILAIRE BELLOC
M.P. for Salford (Eng.); Author of "Danton,"
Paris," etc.
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ITALY

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StudiJ. S. KENNARD, Litt.D., D.C.L., L.H.D. Author of "Italian Romance Writers," Danteschi," " Romanzi e Romanzieri Italiani," "Les Femme dans le Roman Italien," "The Fallen God," etc.

JAPAN

GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD, D.D., LL.D. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Yale University; Lecturer on Philosophy, Western Reserve University; Lecturer on Education in the universities of Japan.

AUSTRALIA

HON. JOHN GREELEY JENKINS Premier of South Australia 1901-5; AgentGeneral in London for South Australia

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