To carry out the purpose for which it was founded twenty-eight years ago, namely, "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the National Geographic Society publishes this Magazine. All receipts from the publication are invested in the Magazine itself or expended directly to promote geographic knowledge and the study of geography. Articles or photographs from members of the Society, or other friends, are desired. For material that the Society can use, adequate remuneration is made. Contributions should be accompanied by an addressed return envelope and postage, and be addressed: Copyright, 1918, by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Aces Among Aces. By LAURENCE LA TOURETTE DRIGGS . Aces of the Air. By Capt. Jacques de SieyES. America's Part in the Allies' Mastery of the Air. By Major JOSEPH TULASNE. Appeal to Members of the National Geographic Society, An... Battle-Ground of Nature, A: The Atlantic Seaboard. By JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE.... Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked up in Rocks. By GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL... Building America's Air Army. By Lieut. Col. HIRAM BINGHAM, Signal Corps, U. S. A. PAGE Flying in France. By Capt. ANDRÉ DE BERROETA, of the French Aviation Service.... 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..... Future of the Airplane, The. By Rear Admiral ROBERT E. PEARY, U. S. Navy........... Gem of the Ocean, The: Our American Navy. By JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Secretary of 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- 219 Helping to Solve Our Allies' Food Problem: America Calls for a Million Young Sol- 170 Isle of Frankincense, The. By CHARLES K. MOSER, Formerly United States Consul- Italian Race, The. By the EDITOR.. Italy's Eagles of Combat and Defense: Heroic Achievements of Aviators Above the Life Story of an American Airman in France, The: Extracts from the Letters of Stuart Plain Tales from the Trenches: As Told Over the Tea Table in Blighty-A Soldiers' National Geographic Society in War Time, The. By Major-General A. W. GREELY, 170 369 300 |