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TKe NadionaJ 

 Geographic Magazine 



AN illustrated monthly published for the Nationai 

 Geographic Society, of Washington, D. C, by 

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

 in New York City, to whom all business communication* 

 should be addressed. Editorial communications should 

 be addressed to the Managing Editor of the National Geo- 

 graphic Magazine, Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. 



25 CENTS A NUMBER; $2.50 A YEAR 



Editor-in-Chief: JOHN HYDE 



Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Managing Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 

 Associate Editors 



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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 



Kl.IZA 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 



O. H. Tittmann, 



Superintendent of the U- S- Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey 



O. P. Austin, rr S 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, U- i>. 

 Treasury Department 



Ida M. Tarbell, , , 



Author of "-Life of Napoleon," "Life *f 

 Lincoln" etc. 



Carl Louise Garrison, 



Principal of Phelps School, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO., New York 



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