CONTENTS 



Discoverers of America : Annual Address by the President, Gak- 



DrNEK G. Hubbard 1 



The Movements of our Population ; by Hexry Gannett 21 



Rainfall Types of the United States : Annual Report by Vice-Presi- 

 dent General A. W. Greely 45 



The Natural Bridge of Virginia ; by Charles D. Walcott 59 



The geographical Position and Height of Mount Saint Elias ; by Dr 



T. C. Mendenhall t)3 



The Improvement of Geographical Teaching ; by Professor William 



MoRRrs Davis • f>8 



An undiscovered Island off the northern Coast of Alaska: 



I— By Marcus Baker 76 



II — By Captain E. P. Herendeen 78 



III— By General A. W. Greely 80 



The Geologist at Blue Mountain, Maryland ; bv Charles D. Wal- 

 cott 84 



The great populous Centers of the AVorld ; by General A. W\ Greely . 89 



Ouryoungest Volcano ; by J. S. Diller. 98 



Proceedings of the International Geographic Conference in Chicago, 



July 27-28, 1893 • 97 



Introduction ; [by General x\. W. Greely of the Committee 



on Conference] -^^ 



Minutes of the Conference ; by F. H. Newell and] Eliza 



RuHAMAH SciDMORE, Secretaries 101 



Memoirs and Addresses 112 



The Relations of Air and Water to Temperature; and Life ; 



by Gardiner G. Hubbard 112 



The Relations of Geography to History ; by Francis W. 



Parker 1-"^ 



Norway and the Vikings ; by Captain Magnus Andersen . 132 

 Geographic Instruction in the public Schools ; by W. B. 



POWELI l'^'^ 



The Relations of Geology to Physiography in our educa- 

 tional System ; by T. C. Chamberlin lo4 



The Relations of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Cur- 

 rent ; by William Libbey, Junior 161 



■ The arid Regions of the United States ; by F. H. Newell . 167 

 Recent Explorations in Alaska; by Eliza Ruhamah 



SCIDMORE 1 ' "^ 



Z:, The Caravels of Columbus ; by Victor Maria Concas. . . 180 

 ' In the Wake of Columbus ;. by Frederick A. Ober 187 



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