TKe NaLtionaJ 

 Geographic Magazirve 



AN illustrated monthly published for the National 

 Geographic Society, of Washington, D. C, by 

 McClure, Phillips & Co., at 141 East 25 th Street, 

 in New York City, to whom all business communications 

 should be addressed. Editorial communications should 

 be addressed to the Editor of the National Geographic 

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Editor-in-Chief: JOHN HYDE 



Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Managing Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



Associate Editors 



General A. W. Greely, 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S, Army 



W. J. McGee, 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau of Ameri- 

 can 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 "Java, the Garden of the 

 East," etc. 



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. Coast 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, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, 



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