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Science Fiction Critic, v. 1, issue 6, December 1936
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THE SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC 10 Natural Sciences at Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Sloane is the inventor of the self-recording photometer, the first device to record mechanically the illuminative power of gas, and designer (1877) of a new method of determining the sulphur content of illuminating gas... He has been on the staff of The Sanitary Plumber and Engineer, Scientific American, Youth's iCompanion, Everyday Engineering, and a number of Hugo Gernsback's Magazines, besides being managing editor of the Experimenter Publications. Dr. Sloane has been an educational director of the Chemical Institute of New York, a member of the advisory board of the New York Electrical Society, a member of the American Chemical Society, and a member for five years of the New Jersey State Board of Education. In addition to writing nearly a score of text books and handbooks on scientific topics, he has contributed to The Encyclopedia Britannica and The Mineral Industry of the United States, and has translated Eectric Light by Alglave and Boulard; and Jorgensen's Life of St. Francis of Assisi. A. Hyatt Verrill is listed as an author, illustrator, naturalist, and explorer. He was born July 23, 1871 at New Haven, Connecticut. He illustrated the Natural History Department of Webster's Dictionary (1896), the Clarenden Dictionary, and other publications. In 1902 he invented the autochrome process of natural, color photography. From 1889 to 1920 be carried on extensive exploration in Bermuda, the West Indies, Guyana, Central America, and Panama. In 1907 he re-discovered the supposedly extinct Solenodon Paredoxus„ a, species of tropical shrew,, on. the island of Santo Domingo. Verrill was a special agent of the United, States intelligence service during the World War. Besides his. numerous science fiction stories, Mr. Verrill is the author, of more than fifty books of fact, fictjon, and research, including historical, geographical, and sociological descriptions of tropical lands, romances of the pirate and buccaneer, radio, gasoline engines, whaling, and subjects too numerous for mention, He engaged in ethnological expeditions to Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Surinam in 1924-25, and in archeological explorations in Central America, 1925-26. At the time this book was published, Mr. Verrill was with the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New. York, Garrett P. Serviss was born March 24, l851, at Sharon Springs, New York. He received degrees at Cornell and Columbia Universities please see bottom opposite page
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THE SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC 10 Natural Sciences at Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Sloane is the inventor of the self-recording photometer, the first device to record mechanically the illuminative power of gas, and designer (1877) of a new method of determining the sulphur content of illuminating gas... He has been on the staff of The Sanitary Plumber and Engineer, Scientific American, Youth's iCompanion, Everyday Engineering, and a number of Hugo Gernsback's Magazines, besides being managing editor of the Experimenter Publications. Dr. Sloane has been an educational director of the Chemical Institute of New York, a member of the advisory board of the New York Electrical Society, a member of the American Chemical Society, and a member for five years of the New Jersey State Board of Education. In addition to writing nearly a score of text books and handbooks on scientific topics, he has contributed to The Encyclopedia Britannica and The Mineral Industry of the United States, and has translated Eectric Light by Alglave and Boulard; and Jorgensen's Life of St. Francis of Assisi. A. Hyatt Verrill is listed as an author, illustrator, naturalist, and explorer. He was born July 23, 1871 at New Haven, Connecticut. He illustrated the Natural History Department of Webster's Dictionary (1896), the Clarenden Dictionary, and other publications. In 1902 he invented the autochrome process of natural, color photography. From 1889 to 1920 be carried on extensive exploration in Bermuda, the West Indies, Guyana, Central America, and Panama. In 1907 he re-discovered the supposedly extinct Solenodon Paredoxus„ a, species of tropical shrew,, on. the island of Santo Domingo. Verrill was a special agent of the United, States intelligence service during the World War. Besides his. numerous science fiction stories, Mr. Verrill is the author, of more than fifty books of fact, fictjon, and research, including historical, geographical, and sociological descriptions of tropical lands, romances of the pirate and buccaneer, radio, gasoline engines, whaling, and subjects too numerous for mention, He engaged in ethnological expeditions to Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Surinam in 1924-25, and in archeological explorations in Central America, 1925-26. At the time this book was published, Mr. Verrill was with the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New. York, Garrett P. Serviss was born March 24, l851, at Sharon Springs, New York. He received degrees at Cornell and Columbia Universities please see bottom opposite page
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