Scientific American Magazine Vol 143 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 143, Issue 2

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Features

Fire: the Enemy of Our Forests

Charles W. Geiger, Wallace Hutchinson

Photography Identifies Gems by their Flaws

Frank Heitzler

Walking on Water

Henry J. Tomlinson

St. Louis Buries a River

W. W. Horner

Accuracy in "Talkie" Equipment

Zoogenesis

The New Theory of Evolution

Austin H. Clark

Dining in a Refrigerator!

Built of Mud

A. Hyatt Verrill

Basic Patents in Evolution--I

William K. Gregory

The "Green Flash" and Other Odd Phenomena

Henry Norris Russell

Film Yourself for a Quarter

Perfume

Martin Meyer

The Eight-Inch Gun Cruiser

W. D. Puleston

A Home Made Microscope for the Amateur

Leon J. Israelovitch

Work and Fatigue

Industrial Fatigue Is Passing Out of Style

Donald A. Laird

Rome's Slums Reveal Imperial Ruins

The Imperious Sycamore

"Clear are the depths where the eddies play, And the dimples deepen and hurl away; And the plane tree's speckled arms o'ershoot The swifter current that mines its root." -Bryant

William Alphonso Murrill

Vegetables that Defeat Goiter

M. Bishop Alexander

Mechanical Silkworms

Grace Lockhart

'Panama' Hats From the Pacific

Hendrik DeLeeuw

The Amateur AstronomerTelevision Enters the Home, August 1930

Albert G. Ingalls

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, August 1930

Back of Frontispiece, August 1930

Our Point of View, August 1930

Movie Camera as an Aid in Testing, Fire War on Pests and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, August 1930

Attorney's Delay Unavoidable, Plan to Include Patents in War Settlement Favored and more