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The National Geographic Magazine 



A JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY, 



Physical, Commercial, Political. 



ED/TOR: 



JOHN HYDE, 



Statistician of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



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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. Geologi 

 cal Survey. 



C. HART iMERRIAM, Chief of the Biological Survey, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



DAVID J. HILL, Assistant Secretary of State. 



CHARLES H. ALLEN, Assistant Secretary of the 

 Navy. 



WILLIS L. MOORE, Chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. 

 H. S. PRITCHETT, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast 



and Geodetic Survey. 

 MARCUS BAKER, U. S. Geological Survey. 

 O. P. AUSTIN, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, U. S. 



Treasury Department. 

 ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE, author of "Java, 



the Garden of the East," etc. 

 CARL LOUISE GARRISON, Principal of the Phelps 



School, Washington, D. C. 



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