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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 



MAGAZINE 



Is edited by the following staff: 



John Hyde, 



Statistician of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture 



General A. W. Greely, 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W J McGee, 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology 



Henry Gannett, 



Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological 

 Survey 



C. Hart Merriam, 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



David J. Hill, 



Assistant Secretary of State 



Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, 



Author of "fava, the Garden of 

 the East" etc. 



Gilbert H. Grosvenor, 



Washington, D. C. 



Marcus Baker, 



U. S. Geological Survey 



Willis L. Moore, 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



H. S. Pritchett, 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coas{ 

 and Geodetic Survey 



O. P. Austin, 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 

 U. S. Treasury Department 



Charles H. Allen, 



Governor of Porto Rico 



Carl Louise Garrison, 



Principal of Phelps School, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



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