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China : Her Historj- and Development ; by John Barrett 209 



The Dikes of Holland ; by Gerard H. Matthes 219 



Mexico of Today (concluded) ; by Don Juan N. Navarro 235 



Sir John Murray 238 



Geographic Notes 240 



Geographic Literature 248 



The Link Relations of Southwestern Asia ; by TalcoTT Wii^i^iams 249 



China : Her History and Development (concluded) ; by John Barrett 266 



The Indian Village of Baum ; by H. C. Brown 272 



The Geography of Abyssinia ; by AUGUSTUS B. WlLDE 274 



Oil Fields of Texas and California 276 



The Seri Indians 278 



Asia, the Cradle of Humanity ; by W J McGee 281 



The Link Relations of Southwestern Asia (concluded) ; by Talcott WiWvIams 291 



The Old Post-road from Tiflis to Erivan ; by ESTHER LancraET Hovey 300 



Joseph Le Conte ; by W J McGee ' 309 



Mount McKinley ; by ROBERT MuLDROW 312 



Geographic Notes 313 



Siberia ; by Prof. Edwin A. Grosvenor 317 



German Geographers and German Geography ; by Martha Krug Genthe 324 



The Drift of Floating Bottles in the Pacific Ocean ; by James Page 337 



The British Antarctic Expedition 339 



Urban Population of the United States 345 



Geographic Notes . . 347 



Next International Geographical Congress to be Held in Washington ; [G11.BERT H. 



Grosvenor] 351 



Peary's Work in 1900 and 1901 357 



The Weather Bureau ; by Willis L- Moore 362 



Work of the Bureau of American Ethnolog)'- ; by W J McGeE 369 



Boundaries of Territorial Acquisitions 373 



The German South Polar Expedition ; by Georg Kollm 377 



National Geographic Society Calendar, 1901-1902 379 



Geographic Notes 380 



The Sex, Nativity, and Color of the People of the United States; [Gilbert H. Grosvenor]. 381 



A Remarkable Salt Deposit ; by CharlES F. Holder 391 



Sven Hedin's Explorations in Central Asia 393 



Recent Discoveries in Egypt 396 



Kodiak not Kadiak ; [Marcus Baker] 397 



Origin of the Name " Cape Nome ; " by GEORGE Davidson 398 



Geographic Notes 399 



Geographic Literature 409 



National Geographic Society Program of Lectures and Meetings 411 



Diary of a Voyage from San Francisco to Tahiti and Return, 1901 ; by S. P. LanglEy. . . 413 



The Lost Boundary of Texas ; by Marcus Baker 430 



Ice Caves and Frozen Wells ; by W J McGee 433 



Western Progress in China 434 



Geographic Notes 436 



Geographic Literature 442 



National Geographic Societ}-. 448 



Index 449 



