NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. IX. 1898. Washington, 1898.

Svo, pp. 525. Illustrated.

Contents: Three weeks in Hubbard Bay, West Greenland, by Robert Stein; The Samoan cocoanut, compiled by A. W. Greely; The modern Mississippi problem, by WJ McGee; Our foreign trade; Gardiner Greene Hubbard-address by Teunis S. Hamlin; Gardiner Greene Hubbard-memorial meeting, Washington, Jan. 21, 1898; Dwellings of the Saga-time in Iceland, Greenland and Vineland, by Cornelia Horsford; Two hundred miles up the Kuskokwim, by Charles Hallock; The Mt. St. Elias expedition of Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, 1897; The origin of French-Canadians, abstract of paper by B. Sulté; The height of Mt. Rainier, by Richard L. Goode; Geographic work of the Bureau of Ethnology; A relic of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition, by Cyrus C. Babb; Geographic names in West Greenland, by Ralph S. Tarr; The northwest passes to the Yukon, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore; Overland routes to the Klondike, by Hamlin Garland; The future of the Yukon gold fields, by Wm. H. Dall; Notes on the wild fowl and game animals of Alaska, by E. W. Nelson; Climatic conditions of Alaska, by A. W. Greely; A Yukon pioneer, Mike Lebarge, by Wm. H. Dall; Alaska and its mineral resources, by S. F. Emmons; The civil government of Alaska, by Geo. C. Perkins; Some of the conditions and possibilities of agriculture in Alaska, by Walter H. Evans; Cuba, by Robert T. Hill; Origin of West India bird life, by Frank M. Chapman; Trade of the United States with Cuba, by John Hyde; Captain Charles Sigsbee, U. S. N., by Henry Gannett; The Philippine Islands, by F. F. Hilder; Notes on some primitive Philippine tribes, by Dean C. Worcester; Commerce of the Philippine Islands, by John Hyde: The disposition of the Philippines, by Charles E. Howe; American geographic education, by W J McGee; Origin of the physical feature of the United States, by G. K. Gilbert; Geographic development of the District of Columbia, by W J McGee; Historical development of the national capital, by Marcus Baker; Geographic work of the general government, by Henry Gannett; The geologic atlas of the U. S.; The topographic atlas of the U. S.; Papagueria, by W J McGee; Gomez and the New York Gulf, by L. D. Scisco; Wellman Polar Expedition; The growth of the United States, by W J McGee; Bitter Root forest reserve, by Richard U. Goode; Atlantic estuarine tides, by M. S. W. Jefferson; The forest conditions of the state of Washington, by Henry Gannett; Lake Chelan, by Henry Gannett; Frederic W. Putnam, by John Hyde; Mesa Verde, by F. H. Newell; The geospheres, by W J McGee; Sumatra's west coast, by David G. Fairchild; What is the tide of the open Atlantic? by M. S. W. Jefferson; Proposed collection of forestry statistics; The five civilized tribes and the survey of Indian Territory, by C. H. Fitch; Cloud scenery of the high plains, by Willard D. Johnson; Atlantic coast tides, by Mark S. W. Jefferson; Alexander Graham Bell on Japan. (899

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. x. 1899. Washington, 1899.

Svo. pp. viii, 533.

Contents: The Stikine river in 1898, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore; The West Indian hurricane of September 10-11, 1898, by E. B. Garriott; Colonial systems of the world, by O. P. Austin; Journey across the great pygmy forest of Central Africa, by Albert B. Lloyd; The economic condition of the Philippines, by Max L. Tornow; Manila and the Philippines, by A. Falkner von Sonnenburg; The original territory of the United States, by David J. Hill; Porto Rico, by Robert T. Hill; Sources of the Saskatchewan, by Walter D. Wilcox; Exploration in the Canadian Rockies; How long a whale may carry a harpoon, by Wm. H. Dall; Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in 1898; The red wood forest of the Pacific coast, by Henry Gannett; Is climatic aridity impending on the Pacific slope?-The testimony of the forest, by J. B. Leiberg; Theater of military operations in Luzon-map; National growth and national character, by W J McGee; Samoa: Navigator's islands, by Commander H. Webster; The commercial importance of Samoa, by O. P. Austin; The Harriman Alaska expedition in cooperation with the Washington Academy of Sciences, by G. H. Grosvenor; Proposed meteorological station in Iceland; The Belgian antarctic expedition; Physiography of the Nicaragua canal route, by C. Willard Hayesmap: Nicaragua and the Isthmian routes, by A. P. Davis; The Wellman polar expedition, by J. Howard Gore; Explorations in Alaska; Meteorology in the Philippines; South polar regions-map; Shishaldin as a field for exploration, H. Doc. 923, 59–1, vol 2———9

by Joseph Stanley-Brown; Magnetic work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, by L. A. Bauer; Deep-sea exploring expedition of the steamer "Albatross," by Hugh M. Smith; The proposed American interoceanic canal in its commercial aspects, by Joseph Nimmo, jr.; The interoceanic camal, by Emory R. Johnson; Plans for reaching the south pole, by Gilbert H. Grosvenor; The commercial development of Japan, by O. P. Austin; The bad lands of South Dakota, by N. H. Darton; The West Indian hurricane of August 7-14, 1899, by E. B. Garriott; The international cloud work of the weather bureau, by Frank H. Bigelow; Life on a Yukon trail, by Alfred Pearce Dennis; Tides of Chesapeake Bay, by E. D. Preston; The relation of forests and forest fires, by Gifford Pinchot; Variations in lake levels and atmospheric precipitation, by Alfred J. Henry; Calculations of population in June, 1900, by Henry Farquhar; The Alaskan boundary, by John W. Foster; The rational element in geography, by Wm. M. Davis; Map of the seat of war in Africa; The Wellman polar expedition, by Walter Wellman; The Harriman Alaska expedition, by Henry Gannett; The meteorological observations of the second Wellman expedition, by Evelyn B. Baldwin; Index (900 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. XI. 1900. Washington, 1900.

Svo, pp. viii, 486. Illustrated.

Contents: The Philippine Islands and their environment, by John Barrett; The Cape Nome gold district, by F. C. Schrader; The Idaho and Montana boundary line, by Richard U. Goode; The Copper river delta, by E. D. Preston: Our new possessions and the interest they are exciting, by O. P. Austin; The total eclipse of the sun, May 28, 1900, by F. H. Bigelow; The census of 1900, by F. H. Wines; Some geographic features of southern Patagonia, by J. B. Hatcher: Kite work of the Weather Bureau, by H. C. Frankenfield; British South Africa and the Transvaal, by F. F. Hilder; The history and geographie distribution of Bubonic Plague, by George M. Sternberg; Ice cliffs on White River, Yukon Territory, by Martin W. Gorman; A hunting trip to northern Greenland, by Fullerton Merrill; A canal from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean; Diseases of the Philippines; The Anglo-Venezuelan boundary dis pute, by Marcus Baker; Korea-the hermit nation, by H. Webster; An assumed inconstancy in the level of Lake Nicaragua; A question of the per manency of the Nicaragua canal, by C. Willard Hayes; The Isthmian Canal Commission; International arbitration and its possibilities; Helping naviga tion; Railway construction and improvements; Work in the Arctic and Antarctic; The growth of Russia, by Edwin A. Grosvenor; Influence of geographical conditions on military operations in South Africa, by W. A. Simpson; Apper ception in geography, by M. E. Kelton; Ice cliffs on White River, Yukon Terri tory, by C. W. Willard Hayes and Alfred H. Brooks; A German route to India. by Gilbert H. Grosvenor; The Cuban Census; The road to Bolivia, by William E. Curtis; The colonial expansion of France, by Jean C. Bracq; The prevention of hail storms by the use of cannon; The U. S. Signal Corps in Porto Rico; The revolt of the Ashantis; The expansion of England, by Edwin D. Mead; The road to Bolivia, by William E. Curtis; The Chinese Boxers," by Llewellyn James Davies; Outline map of the far East; The Tsung-Li-Yamen, by E. R. Seidmore; Map of the Chinese Empire, Japan, and the Russian-Manchurian Railway; Problems in China, by James M. Hubbard; China and her people, by Harrie Webster; The National Geographic Society's Eclipse Expedition to Norfolk, Va., by Marcus Baker; The scientific work of the expedition, by Simon Newcomb; Railways, rivers, and strategic towns in Manchuria; The first Ameri can census of Porto Rico; The Colorado desert, by David P. Barrows: The Chinese Paradox, by Harvey Maitland Watts; Colonial government in Borneo, by James M. Hubbard; The water supply for the Nicaragua canal, by Arthur P. Davis; Mrs. Bishop's "The Yangtze Valley and Beyond," by Eliza Ruhamah Seidmore; Forest reserves of the United States; The lessons of Galveston, by W J McGee; The West Indian hurricane of Sept. 1-12, 1900, by E. B. Garriott: Hunan --the closed province of China, by Wm. Barclay Parsons; Through the heart of Africa; Nansen's "Farthest North" eclipsed; The Samoan Islands, by Edwin V. Morgan; The Manila Observatory, by José Algué; The limited water supply of the arid region, by Frederick H. Newell; Hurricanes on the coast of Texas, by A. W. Greely; Africa the largest game preserve in the world, by John B. Torbert: The Wyoming fossil fields expedition of July, 1899, by Wilbur C. Knight; Gold in the Philippines, by F. F. Hilder; The teaching of physical geography in elementary schools, by Richard E. Dodge; Geography at the

British Association for the Advancement of Science; Decisions of the U. S.
Board on geographic names; Some significant facts concerning the foreign
trade of Great Britain.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. XII.
Washington, 1901.

1901.

Svo. pp. vii, 452. Illustrated.

Contents: The influence of submarine cables upon military and naval supremacy, by George O. Squier; The Indian tribes of Southern Patagonia, Tierra Del Fuego, and the adjoining islands, by J. B. Hatcher; Location of the boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, by Arthur P. Davis; The Nicaragua Canal; The Tsangpo, by James Mascarene Hubbard; Recent contributions to our knowl edge of the earth's shape and size by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, by C. A. Schott; Explorations in Central East Africa; An around-the-world-American exposition, by O. P. Austin; The causes that led up to the Siege of Pekin, by W. A. P. Martin; Singan-the present capital of the Chinese Empire; The midnight sun in the Klondike, by Alice Rollins Crane; Japan and China-some comparisons, by Harrie Webster; Abyssinia-the country and people, by Oscar T. Crosby; The old Yuma trail, by W J McGee; The sea fogs of San Francisco; Geographic facts from the report of the Taft Philippine Commission; The Philippine exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, by D. O. Noble Hoffmann; Advances in geographic knowledge during the nineteenth century, by A. W. Greely; Mexico of to-day, by Senor Dr. Don Juan N. Navarro; The LatinAmerican constitutions and revolutions, by John W. Foster; The general geography of Alaska, by Henry Gannett; China, her history and development, by John Barrett; The dikes of Holland, by Gerard H. Matthes; The link relations of southwestern Asia, by Talcott Williams; The Indian village of Baum; Oil fields of Texas and California; The Seri Indians; Asia, the cradle of humanity, by WJ McGee; The old post-road from Tiflis to Erivan, by Esther Lancraft Hovey; Siberia, by Edwin A. Grosvenor; German geographers and German geography, by Martha Krug Genthe; The drift of floating bottles in the Pacific Ocean, by James Page; The British Antarctic Expedition; Urban population in the United States; Peary's work in 1900 and 1901; The Weather Bureau, by Willis L. Moore; Boundaries of territorial acquisitions; The German South Polar Expedition, by Georg Kollm; The sex, nativity, and color of the people of the United States; A remarkable salt deposit; Sven Hedin's explorations in Central Asia; Recent discoveries in Egypt; Kodiak, not Kadiak; Origin of the name "Cape Nome;" Diary of a voyage from San Francisco to Tahiti and return, 1901, by S. P. Langley; The lost boundary of Texas, by Marcus Baker; Ice caves and frozen wells, by W J McGee; Western progress in China; Index. (902 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. XIII. 1902. Washington, 1902.

Svo, xii, pp. 478. Illustrated.

Contents: Map of the Philippines; The new Mexico, by John W. Foster; Commerce of Mexico and the United States, by O. P. Austin; Argentine-Chile boundary dispute: A trip through Siberia, by Ebenezer J. Hill; The teaching of geography, by Ralph S. Tarr; The latest route proposed for the Isthmian Canal, the Mandingo route; The possibilities of Alaska, by C. C. Georgeson; Sarichefs atlas, 1826, by Marcus Baker; Magnetic survey of the United States, by L. A. Bauer: Sven Hedin in Tibet; American progress in Cuba; Cuban railways, by Albert G. Robinson; The storm of February 25-28, 1902, by Alfred J. Henry; Agriculture in Alaska, by Henry Gannett; Recent French Explorations in Africa, by Charles Rabot; Proposed surveys in Alaska in 1902, by Alfred H. Brooks; Ocean currents, by James Page; Recent explorations in the Canadian Rockies, by Walter D. Wilcox; A great African lake, by Sir Henry M. Stanley; Coal resources of Alaska; The National Geographic Society expedition to Martinique and St. Vincent; The explosion of Krakatoa, by Sir Robert Ball Volcanoes; The magnetic disturbance caused by the eruption of Mount Pelee The National Geographic Society expedition to the West Indies; Volcanic Islands of the West Indies; Lafcadeo Hearn on the Island and people of Martinique; Report by Robert T. Hill on the volcanic eruptions in the West Indies: The recent volcanic eruptions in the West Indies, by Israel C. Russell; Volcanic rocks of Martinique and St. Vincent: collected by Messrs. Hill and Russell; Chemical discussion of analyses of volcanic ejecta from Martinique and St. Vincent, by W. F. Hillebrand; Reports of vessels as to the range of

volcanic dust, compiled by James Page; Problems of the Pacific-the commerce
of the great ocean, by O. P. Austin; Shortening time across the continent, by
Henry Herbert McClure; Field work of the U. S. Geological Survey for season.
1902; Problems of the Pacific-the great ocean in world growth, by W J
McGee; New Zealand, by Henry Demarest Lloyd; Our northern Rockies, by
R. H. Chapman; Limiting width of Meander Belts, by M. S. W. Jefferson;
Peary's work in 1901-1902; John Wesley Powell-biographical sketch; The
course of the retail coal trade, by David T. Day; Submerged valleys in San-
dusky Bay, by E. L. Mosely; Place names in the United States; Among the
great Himalayan glaciers; Volcanic eruptions on Martinique and St. Vincent.
by Israel C. Russell; The copyright of a map or chart, by William Alexander
Miller; The eruptions of La Soufriere, St. Vincent, in May, 1902, by Edmund
Otis Hovey; Sverdrup's work in the Arctics; Volcanic disturbances in Guate-
mala; Explorations around Mt. McKinley; Index.
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1903.

Illustrated.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. XIV. Washington, 1903. Svo, pp. xii, 482, 75. Contents: The work of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, by O. H. Tittmann; Jade, by S. E. Easter; Some notes on Venezuela; An introduction to physical geography; Dr. Sven Hedin-biographical sketch; Peary on the North Pole; Plan for climbing Mount McKinley, by Alfred H. Brooks and D. L Reaburn; What the U. S. government does to promote agriculture; l'ilot chart of the North Atlantic Ocean for February, 1903; The Great Turk and his lost provinces, by William E. Curtis; The work of the U. S. Hydrographic Office, by W. H. H. Southerland; Why Great Salt Lake has fallen, by L. H. Murdock; The Canadian boundary, by John W. Foster; Mountains of Unimak Island, Alaska, by Ferdinand Westdahl; Opening of the Alaskan Territory, by Harring ton Emerson; The forests of Canada; Work in the far south; Theories of volcanic action; Reindeer in Alaska, by Gilbert H. Grosvenor; Henequen-the Yucatan fiber, by E. H. Thompson: The eruption of the Soufriere of St. Vincent, 1812 (from the Evening News, June 30, 1812); " The United StatesLand and Waters," by Cyrus C. Adams; The conquest of bubonic plague in the Philippines; Improvements in the city of Manila; American development of the Philippines; The British South Polar Expedition; The tetrahedral principle in kite structure, by Alexander Graham Bell; The Ziegler Polar Expedi tion; The United States, its soils and their products, by H. W. Wiley; Big things of the West, by Charles F. Holder; Paul Du Chaillu-biographical sketch; The Weather Bureau and the recent floods, by H. C. Frankenfield; The United States: her industries, by O. P. Austin; The introduction of the mango into the U. S.; Rainfall and the level of Lake Erie, by E. L. Moseley: The United States: her mineral resources, by C. Kirchhoff; Expedition into Texas of Fernando Del Bosque, translated from an old Spanish manuscript, by Betty B. Brewster; The hardy catalpa: Explorations in Tibet; Gardening in northern Alaska, by Middleton Smith; The geographical distribution of insanity in the United States, by William A. White; Peary and the North Pole; The influence of forestry upon the lumber industry of the United States, by Overton W. Price: The Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, by W. C. Mendenhall; Rubber plantations in Mexico and Central America; The Ziegler Polar Expedition: The Mining Bureau of the Philippine Islands, by Charles H. Burritt: Record ascents in the Himalayas; The new cone of Mont Pelée; The value of Arctic exploration, by Robert E. Peary; Surveying the Philippine Islands, by George R. Putnam; Muir Glacier, by C. L. Andrews; The grape-growing industry in the United States; Precious stones; Notes on Panama and Columbia. Index. (904 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. National Geographic Magazine.

Vol. xv.

1904

Svo, pp. 515, xv. Illustrated. Contents: Map showing Alaskan boundary decision; The Alaskan boundary tribunal, with map, by John W. Foster; The reclamation of the west, by F. II. Newell The U. S. weather bureau, by James Wilson; Marcus Baker, by Wm. H. Dall; Controlling sand dunes in the United States, by A. S. Hitchcock: Timberlines, by Israel C. Russell; The republic of Panama, by Wm. H. Burr: Eighth international geographic congress, Washington. 1904: The Philippine weather service: Some facts about Korea; The beet-sugar industry, illustrated: War map of Manchuria and Korea; The Philippine islands and their people. by Henry Gannett; Russian development of Manchuria, by Henry B. Miller, Manchuria and Korea; Lumbering in Manchuria; Travels in Arabia and along

the Persian Gulf, by David G. Fairchild; The American deserts; Consul Skin-
ner's mission to Abyssinia; The sailing ship and the Panama canal, by James
Page: The new home of the Society; Map of Alaska; The bureau of fisheries-
how the rich fisheries of the United States are protected and new fishing grounds
discovered and created, by Barton W. Evermann; The geography of Alaska,
by Alfred H. Brooks; Termination land--the end of the Antarctic continent
discovered by the American Wilkes, by Edwin Swift Balch; Lessons from
Japan Inoculating the ground; The Crosby expedition to Thibet: The work of
the Bureau of Insular Affairs, by Clarence R. Edwards; Some indications of
land in the vicinity of the north pole, by R. A. Harris; Notes on Manchuria,
by Henry B. Miller; The red ant versus the boll weevil; Governing the Philip-
pine islands, by Clarence R. Edwards; Forecasting the weather; Notes on
Thibet; General announcement eighth International Geographic Congress, Wash-
ington, 1904; Peru- its resources, development, and future, by Alfredo Alvarez
Calderon, Agriculture in Japan, by U. S. Consul-General Bellows; Lake Clark,
a little known Alaskan lake, by Wilfred H. Osgood; The geographical pivot of
history: A winter expedition into southwestern Mexico, by E. W. Nelson;
Building the Alaskan telegraph line, by William Mitchell; The fisheries of
Japan, by Hugh M. Smith; What the U. S. Geological Survey has done in
25 years; Colossal natural bridges of Utah; Address by Robert E. Peary on
the assembling of the eighth international geographic congress in Washington;
Some early geographers of the United States, by C. M. Chester; Recent progress
in the execution of a map of the world on the uniform scale of 1: 1,000,000,
by Albrecht Penck; Methods of exploration in Africa, by A. St. H. Gibbons;
The special telegraphic time signal from the naval observatory in honor of
the eighth International Geographic Congress; Resolutions adopted by the
congress; Some early geographers of the United States, by C. M. Chester; The
new English province of Northern Nigeria; Scientific work of Mount weather
meteorological research observatory, by Frank H. Bigelow; Some facts about
Japan; The glaciers of Alaska; Government assistance in handling forest lands;
China, by John W. Foster; A doubtful island of the Pacific, by James D. Hague ;
The United States government telegraph and cable lines, with maps; A bird city
in Hawaii: Index to volume xv.
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For Vol. XVI, see Appendix.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. National Geographic Monographs. Vol. 1.
New York, 1895.

Contents: 1, General Physiographic Processes, by J. W. Powell; 2, General
Physiographic Features, by J. W. Powell; 3, Physiographic Regions of the
United States, by J. W. Powell; 4. Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada, by
I. C. Russell; 5, Beaches and Tidal Marshes of the Atlantic Coast, by N. S.
Shaler: 6. The Northern Appalachians, by Bailey Willis; 7, Niagara Falls and
their History, by G. K. Gilbert; 8. Mount Shasta, by J. S. Diller; 9, The
Physical Geography of Southern New England, by W. M. Davis; 10, The
Southern Appalachians, by C. W. Hayes.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

ten monographs. . . [etc.] 1896.

Svo, pp. v, 345. Illus., maps.

The physiography of the United States;

First issued in 10 parts in 1895 under the title: National geographic monographs, prepared under the auspices of the National geographic society. Given above.

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Topographic models. By Cosmos Mindeleff . [Washington, 1888]

Cover-title, pp. 16, 2 pl. 8vo.

Lecture delivered before the "National Geographic Society" at Washington, October 5th, 1888. Published in the "National Geographic Magazine," vol. 1, no. 3. (908 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The rivers and valleys of Pennsylvania. Lecture delivered before the National Geographic Society at Washington, February 8, 1889, by W. M. Davis. Washington, 1889.

Svo, pp. 71. Map and woodcuts.

(909 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.] Directory of scientific societies of Washington, comprising the Anthropological, Biological, Chemical, Entomological,