CONTENTS 



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Aces Among Aces. By Laurence La Tourette Driggs 568 



Aces of the Air. By Capt. Jacques de Sieyes 5 



America's Part in the Allies' Mastery of the Air. By Major Joseph Tulasne 1 



Appeal to Memoers of the National Geographic Society, An 347 



Battle-Ground of Nature, A: The Atlantic Seaboard. By John Oliver La Gorce 511 



Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked up in Rocks. By Guy Elliott Mitcheu 195 



Building America's Air Army. By Lieut. Col. Hiram Bingham, Signal Corps, U. S. A. 48 



Cooties and Courage. By Herbert Corey 495 



Flying in France. By Capt. Andre de Berroeta, of the French Aviation Service 9 



Forerunners of Famine. By Frederic C. Walcott, of the U. S. Food Administration 336 

 Forming New Fashions in Food : The Bearing of Taste on One of Our Great Food 

 Economies, the Dried Vegetable, Which is Developing into a Big War Industry. 

 By David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge of Foreign Seed and Plant 



Introduction, U. S. Department of Agriculture 356 



Future of the Airpiane, The. By Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, U. S. Navy 107 



Gem of the Ocean, The: Our American Navy. By Josephus Daniels, Secretary of 



the Navy 313 



Germany's Air Program , ^ 114 



Germany's Dream of World Domination. By the Editor 559 



Health and Morale of America's Citizen Army, The : Personal Observations of Condi- 

 tions in Our Soldier Cities by a Former Commander-in-Chief of the United States 



Army and Navy. By William Howard Taft , 219 



Helping to Solve Our Allies' Food Problem : America Calls for a Million Young Sol- 

 diers of the Commissary to Volunteer for Service in 1918. By Ralph Graves 170 



Hospital Heroes Convict the "Cootie" 510 



Isle of Frankincense, The. By Charles K. Moser, Formerly United States Consul- 



General to Aden, Arabia 267 



Italian Race, The. By the Editor 47 



Italy's Eagles of Combat and Defense : Heroic Achievements of Aviators Above the 

 Adriatic, the Apennines, and the Alps. By Kindness of Gen. P. Tozzi, Chief of the 



Italian Military Mission 38 



Life Story of an American Airman in France, The: Extracts from the Letters of Stuart 

 Walcott, Who, Between July and December, 1917, Learned to Fly in French Schools 



of Aviation, Won Fame at the Front, and Fell Near Saint Souplet 86 



National Geographic Society 170 



National Geographic Society in War Time, The. By Major-General A. W. Greely, 



U. S. Army . 369 



Plain Tales from the Trenches : As Told Over the Tea Table in Blighty— A Soldiers' 



"Home" in Paris. By Carol K. Corey 300 



Prussianism. By Robert Lansing. Secretary of State 546 



Shopping Abroad for Our Army in France. By Herbert Corey 206 



