This short biographical paper supplements, with personal recollections, the record of the life of R. W. Wood, doyen of American physics, as given in DR. WOOD by William Seabrook, and the summary of his work, that appeared in the Journal of the Optical Society of America in 1933 on the ...

It is well known that successful speculation can be a boon to society, whether or not the successful speculator is ruled to be the legitimate appropriator of his profits. It is also understood that unsuccessful speculation can naturally impose losses on the unsuccessful speculator himself. Little, however, is known about ...

[4],106p. ; 8⁰.

[47], 247 [i.e. 249]; [4], 67, 33 p. : ill.

Gift: Forest E. Morse, Montpelier, Vt. and Vermont Historical Society.; Rec. Rare Book. 3-16-40.; On verso, part 2: Gift Forest E. Morse and Vermont Historical Society Jan. 2, 1940

Thesis (M.S.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2006.

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Gift. Forest E. Morse, Montpelier, Vt. and Vermont Historical Society.; Rec. Rare Book. 3-16-40.; On verso: Gift Forest E. Morse and Vermont Historical Society Jan. 2, 1940

Gift. Forest E. Morse, Montpelier Vt. and Vermont Historical Society.; Rec. Rare Book. 3-16-40.; On verso: Gift Forest E. Morse and Vermont Historical Society Jan. 2, 1940

On verso of Piece 2: Gift, Forest E. Morse and Vermont Historical Society, Jan. 2, 1940.

Reprinted from the Forestry Chronicle, December, 1964, vol. 40, no. 4