AFRICA 



AGASSIZ 



Ivory Coast 



Kamerun 



Kordofan 



Liberia 



Mashonaland 



Morocco 



Natal 



Nigeria 



Nubia 



Numidla 



Orange Free State 



Portuguese East Africa 



Portuguese Guinea 



Rhodesia 



Senegal 



Senegambia and Niger 



Sierra Leone 



Sokoto 



Somali land 



Sudan 



Togo land 



Transvaal 



Tripoli 



Tunis 



Uganda 



Union of South Africa 



Wadal 



Zululand 



RIVERS 



Senegal 

 Shire 



Victoria Falls 

 Zambezi 



Congo 



Gambia 



Niger 



Nile 



Orange 



CLIMATE CONDITIONS 



Kalahari Desert Sirocco 



Sahara 



CHARACTERISTIC ANIMALS 



Antelope Gorilla 



Buffalo Hippopotamus 



Camel Hyena 



Chimpanzee Leopard 



Crocodile Lion 



Elephant Ostrich 



Giraffe Rhinoceros 



Gnu Zebra 



Diamonds 

 Gold 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Ivory 

 Rubber 



HISTORY 



Livingstone, David South African War 



Park, Mungo Stanley, Henry M. 



Roosevelt, Theodore 



AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL 

 CHURCH, a religious organization, formed ex- 

 clusively for the colored people. It is a branch 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was 

 established in Philadelphia in 1816 by Richard 

 Allen. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion 

 Church was organized four years later. While 

 independent of the mother Church, these two 

 bodies are conducted under the same rules and 

 system of government as the older organiza- 

 In 1913 the African Methodist Episcopal 

 Church had 620,000 members, and the Zion 

 Church had 568,608. See METHODISTS. 



AGAMEM'NON, one of the outstanding fig- 

 ures in ancient Greek legend, brother of Mene- 

 laus, whose wife Helen was the cause of the 

 Trojan War (see TROY). As king of Mycenae 

 and Argos, and thus the most powerful ruler in 

 Greece, Agamemnon was chosen to command 

 all the Greek forces when the struggle com- 

 ired. On his return from the war he was 

 kill. (1 by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover 

 Aegisthus. See, also, MYTHOLOGY. 



LOUIS AGASSIZ 



AGANIP'PE, in Grecian mythology, a foun- 

 tain near Mount Helicon, in Boeotia, sacred to 

 the Muses, which had the property of inspiring 

 with poetic fire any person who drank of its 

 waters. 



AGASSIZ, ag' ahse, Louis JOHN RUDOLPH 

 (1807-1873), a great naturalist and teacher, one 

 of those rare men who combined ability for 

 research in science with the power of inspiring 

 other men. Agassiz was the greatest authority 

 of his day on ma- 

 rine zoology, and 

 he discovered 

 many new facts 

 in geology and 

 animal life, but 

 his fame is 

 greater for the 

 imagination and 

 the enthusiasm 

 which he com- 

 municated to his 

 pupils. His 

 science was some- 

 times at fault ; 

 his humanity 

 never. At the age of 22 he wrote to his father : 

 "I wish it may be said of Louis Agassiz that 

 he was the first naturalist of his time, a good 

 citizen, and beloved of those who knew him." 

 No higher praise can be given him than to say 

 that all of this came true. 



Agassiz was born in Switzerland, in a little 

 village not far from the shores of Lake Neu- 

 chatel. He studied medicine at the universities 

 of Zurich, Heidelberg and Munich, but before 

 his course was completed was invited to assist 

 a well-known naturalist on a study of Brazilian 

 fishes. This work led to extended investigation 

 of European fishes, and the study of fossil 

 fishes in turn stirred his interest in geology. 

 In 1847 he became a professor at Harvard 

 University, where he founded the Museum of 

 Natural History, now world-famous as the 

 Agassiz Museum. Another forward step, due 

 to him, was the summer school on the island 

 of Penikese in Buzzard's Bay, opened in the 

 year of his death. This was the first zoological 

 laboratory built amid the haunts of the ani- 

 mals to be studied. Over his grave in Mount 

 Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, is a great 

 boulder, brought from the glacier in Switzer- 

 land where he made his first important obser- 

 vation on geology, and the pine trees which 

 shelter it were brought from the little village 

 in which he was born. 



