Excerpt from American Supplement to Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 4: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General LiteratureThe greater fulness of the Encyclopedia Britannica on American topics in its later volumes has enabled the editors of the Supplement to traverse the corresponding ground more rapidly. They have still found abundant room for judicious enlargement and addition to the original work. Amer ican biography, the careers and works of living persons of note at home and abroad, the political, legal, religions and social institutions of our country, its natural history and resources, are here exhibited at such length as their interest to Americans seemed to demand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.