210 ANNUAL EEPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 
parative safety. When you come in from your first ride you are 
convinced. If you have ever flown, you know that flying is a dull 
business, compared to skimming over the surface of the water at 60 
knots, and for this reason there undoubtedly will be a future for the 
type for sport as well as foi the more serious things at which Dr. 
Bell and Mr. Baldwin have been aiming. 
