(p. 298). Cross-country Bight by French officers. The quotation is from the _Scientific American_ of June 18, 1910. This periodical has shown great interest in the new science of aeronautics, and was the first to offer a trophy for long-distance flying--a trophy that was won for the years 1908 and 1909 by Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss. The Wright brothers have declined to compete for prizes; otherwise "records" for cross-country flying and the like would doubtless have advanced even more rapidly than has been the case. Transcriber's Notes: Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Text uses both "aerial" and "aërial". The references to Figs. 1 and 2 used subscripts. They are represented here as simple numbers, e.g., R1. Page 262: "representing six thousand words" should be "representing six hundred thousand words". End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Every-day Science: Volume VII. The Conquest of Time and Space, by Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams