CONTENTS 



Hutton and his wife — Dangerfield and the Spanish Mackerel — New 

 England cooking — Arctic explorers. 



Chapter XIV page 283 



Alexander Graham Bell — The probable origin of his famous 

 Wednesday evenings — What was done at those evenings and how it 

 was done — Langley and his flying machine — Bell's interest in flying — 

 His tetrahedral kite — McCurdy, Orville Wright, Santos Dumont and 

 Glenn Curtiss — C. M. Manly — Incident of the Contessa Montessori — 

 Dr. Bell's three cigars a day — Physicians and tobacco — The origin of 

 the Walter Reed Memorial — The wide reputation of the Wednesday 

 evenings — Echoes from France and Hawaii — Spencer Miller and his 

 remarks — The World War and the discussion after the United States 

 entered it — Duca Litta's letter — Remarks of Meyer, the agricultural 

 explorer — Dr. Bell's character — James Harvey Robinson on such men 

 — Voltaire on the inventor — Personal acquaintance with five genera- 

 tions of the family — Herbert Putnam and the Round Table Club — 

 The reunion after the World War — Remarks of Roland Cotton Smith 

 and M. Jusserand — A meeting with Dr. Bell's great-granddaughter 

 in Japan in 1931. 



Chapter XV page 300 



The Clover-seed Midge — Theodor Pergande's story — Spiritualism — 

 Sir Alfred Russell Wallace — Bernard E. Fernow and the School of 

 Forestry at Cornell — Poulton and Fernow climb a mountain — The 

 Capri Fig Story — The two Wileys and the Legion of Honor — The 

 Commissioners and the Secretaries of Agriculture — General Le Due — 

 Sir Basil Zaharoff — An episode concerning Nicolas Cholodkowsky — 

 Credit to Dr. Holland for a story in "The Insect Menace" — End of 

 ofl&cial career — Colonel Charles E. Davis — Recent book — ^The Celebra- 

 tion of the Centenary of the French Entomological Society — The 

 Fifth International Congress of Entomology in Paris. 



Index page 327 



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