page no 881 note on * In Alexandre See's book “ Lcs lois experimcntales de Paviation ” (1910) a number of theories of aeroplane dimensions are reviewed with great acuteness. Plausible theories indicating unlimited possibilities of size are exposed, and the method sketched above is substantially adopted. It had always surprised him that See in 1910 should have so much clearer insight into the problem than most subsequent writers.