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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

EDITOR SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

MANAGING EDITOR

GEORGE EDWIN RINES

ASSISTED BY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND OF THE MOST EMINENT
SCHOLARS AND AUTHORITIES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE

Issued under the Editorial Supervision of

The Scientific American

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IN TWENTY VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN COMPILING DEP'T

225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

1911

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THE AMERICANA

DEPARTMENT AND ADVISORY EDITORS

ASTRONOMY

SIMON NEWCOMB, Ph.D., LL.D., D.Sc.

PHILOSOPHY

JAMES E. CREIGHTON, A.M., Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University PHYSICS

ROBERT S. WOODWARD, Ph.D., LL.D. President of Carnegie Institution

PURE MATHEMATICS CASSIUS J. KEYSER, M.A., Ph.D. Adrain Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University

EDUCATION

ANDREW SLOAN DRAPER, LL.D. Commissioner of Education, State of New York

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."

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J. S. KENNARD, Litt.D., D.C.L., L.H.D. Author of "Italian Romance Writers," "StudiDanteschi," ""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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