SA Supplements Vol 75 Issue 1931supp

SA Supplements

Volume 75, Issue 1931supp

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Features

Literary Genius and Manic-Depressive Insanity

With Special Reference to the Alleged Case of Dean Swift

C. Jacobson

Use of Mirror in Watching Stack Smoke

Artificial Ebony from Oak Wood

War and the Survival of the Fittest—I

Does Physical Conflict between the Nations Select the Highest Type?

Robert M. Dickie

Volcanic Vortex Rings

The Direct Conversion of Lava into Ash

Frank I. Perret

Selective Reflection in Ultra-Violet Light

Some Curious Cases

Gustave Michaud

Controlling the Mississippi River

Why the Levee System is Superior to All other Proposed Methods

Col. C. McD. Townsend

The Elevator Action of the Rudder

Recent Development of the Locomotive

The Latest Stages in Its Evolution

George R. Henderson

Spontaneous Heating of Stored Coal

Its Cause and Prevention

Rate of Multiplication of Organisms

Charles Lathrop Pack

President of the National Conservation Congress

The Effect of Preliminary Heat Treatment upon the Drying of Clays

Experimental Tugboats

The “Fulton” and the “Froude”

“Direct” versus “Continuous” Current

Forest Products of the United States

The Economic Value of our Trees

Title Pages for the Scientifc American and Supplement

The Metals in Antiquity

Ready-Made Houses

Departments

Correspondence - January 4, 1913