Excerpt from Scientific American Reference Book
Ordnance, U.S. N.; Hon. S. I. Kimball, General Superintendent, Life Saving Service; the Director of the Mint, Capt. Seaton Schroeder, U. S. N., Chief Intelligence Officer, U.S. N.; many examiners in the Patent Office; Hon. Willis L. Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureau; many officials of the Agricultural Department; Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner Bureau of Labor; Hon. George M. Bowers, and Mr. A. B. Alexander, of the Bureau of Fisheries; Prof. Charles Baskerville, Ph.D.; Edward W. Byrn, of Washington; Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. S. W. Stratton, of the Bureau of Standards, and many others.
We are also indebted to the J. B. Lippincott Co. for permission to use diagrams of Geometrical Constructions; to Hazell"s Annual, Whittaker"s Almanac, and the "Daily Mail Year Book." A number of our diagrams are from the "Universal-Taschen Atlas" of Prof A. L. Hichmann. Our matter on the "Arctic Regions" is translated from Dr. Hermann Haack"s "Geographen-Kalender." For a number of our tables we must thank the excellent pocket books of D. K. Clark and Philip R. Bjorling, and we are also indebted to the Year Book issued by our esteemed English contemporary "Knowledge."
It is hoped that this work will save many fruitless searches through works of reference, as the aim of the compilers has been to obtain matter which is not readily available elsewhere.
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