SA Supplements

September 1893

Volume 36, Issue 925supp

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Features

The World's Columbian Exposition—The French National Holiday

Chicago, July 20, 1893

The World's Columbian Exposition—The International Zoological Congress

Problems of Zoology

Theories of the Origin of Mountain Ranges

Summary Statement of the Formal Theory

Joseph Le Conte

Parsee Funeral and Towers of Silence

To the Editor of the Scientific American

Through the Yangtse Gorges

A Luminous Cephalopod

Marriage in Burma

Some Unrealized Annexation Projects

W. A. Curtis

The Geographical Position and Height of Mount Saint Elias

T. C. Mendenhall

Canary Rosewoods

The Cotton Industry

Sparrowe's House, Ipswich

The Limitation of Engine Speed

Charles T. Porter

Handy Tables of Dimensions of Joists and Rafters for Common Purposes

H. Maack

The Bering Sea Decision

The Tide Indicator at Rouen

The Gas Engine as Applied to Electric Light Work

George A. Farwell

Legal Units of Electrical Measure

The Sand Frame Trick

Underground Wires for Electric Lighting and Power Distribution

D. C. Jackson