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As The Existence Of A Corps Of Professors Of Mathematics Is Peculiar To Our Navy, As Well As An Apparent, Perhaps A Real, Anomaly, Some Account Of It May Be Of Interest.

The Mathematician Of To-day Admits That He Can Neither Square The Circle, Duplicate The Cube Or Trisect The Angle. May Not Our Mechanicians, In Like Manner, Be Ultimately Forced To Admit That Aerial Flight Is One Of That Great Class Of Problems With Which Men Can Never Cope... I Do Not Claim That This Is A Necessary Conclusion From Any Past Experience. But I Do Think That Success Must Await Progress Of A Different Kind From That Of Invention.

Aerial Flight Is One Of That Class Of Problems With Which Man Will Never Be Able To Cope. . . . The Example Of The Bird Does Not Prove That Man Can Fly. Imagine The Proud Possessor Of The Aeroplane Darting Through The Air At A Speed Of Several Hundred Feet Per Second. It Is The Speed Alone That Sustains Him. How Is He Ever Going To Stop?

My First Undertaking In The Way Of Scientific Experiment Was In The Field Of Economics And Psychology.

The Reports Of The Eclipse Parties Not Only Described The Scientific Observations In Great Detail, But Also The Travels And Experiences, And Were Sometimes Marked By A Piquancy Not Common In Official Documents.