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work. Furthermore, the price of land 

 in the kingdom has fallen, making new 

 agricultural holdings undesirable. 



Hon. Seth Low has resigned the presi- 

 dency of the American Geographical 

 Society of New York city. Mr. Low 

 was elected president to succeed the late 

 Judge Daly. 



It is annottnced in the Geographical 

 Journal that a magnetic survey of India 

 is to be made by the Indian Govern- 

 ment. In addition to the observatories 

 at Bombay and Calcutta, others are to 

 be built at Dehia Dun, Kodaikanal, and 

 Rangoon. The work is to be directed 

 b}^ the Survey and Meteorological De- 

 partments jointly. 



Colonial Administration is the title of 

 a special report by Hon. O. P. Austin, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the 

 Treasury Department, now in press and 

 soon ready for distribution. Mr. Austin 

 passed the earlier months of 1901 in the 

 capitals of Europe studying the colonial 

 departments of the European govern- 

 ments, and this important volume is the 

 result of his researches and observations. 



Not one case of yellow fever occurred 

 in Habana during the month of Octo- 

 ber, the month during which the fever 

 is most prevalent in Cuba. In October, 

 1900, there were 308 cases, of which 74 

 died. This remarkable change is the 

 result of an untiring war on the mos- 

 quito, waged by the sanitary officers of 

 Habana. Major Gorgas, chief medical 

 officer of Habana, reports that no at- 

 tempt was made to disinfect clothing or 

 to enforce quarantine against the neigh- 

 boring towns where yellow fever was 

 active. Their only aim was to kill the 

 mosquitoes that had bitten a sick per- 

 son, and to prevent any more mosquitoes 

 from biting after the case was discov- 

 ered. There is today an immune pop- 

 ulation of about 40,000 persons in Ha- 

 bana, which yellow fever has ravaged 

 for 150 years. 



A Map of the territory of the Amazon 



has been prepared and published by 

 Ermanno Stradelli. It is based princi- 

 pally on his own extended explorations 

 in west central Brazil, east of Peru and 

 Bolivia. Mr. Stradelli' s work in this 

 region has been very important, as he 

 has ascertained the course of several 

 large southern tributaries to the Ama- 

 zon, and shown that their career is 

 quite different from that hitherto given 

 on South American maps. Mr. Stra- 

 delli' s map is on the scale of about 32 

 miles to the inch. 



The reciprocity treaties and agreements 

 between the United States and foreign 

 countries since 1850 is the subject of a 

 very timely report issued by Hon. O. P. 

 Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics 

 of the Treasury Department. The text 

 of these treaties is given in full, and also 

 the text of such treaties as have been 

 negotiated and are awaiting action. The 

 agreements awaiting ratification by the 

 United States Senate are conventions 

 with Argentina, the French Republic, 

 Bermuda, Jamaica, British Guiana, and 

 Barbados. This valuable bulletin may 

 be obtained by application to the Bureau 

 of Statistics. 



The effects of the drought of July, 1901, 

 upon the trade, industry, and commerce 

 of the United States are admirably de- 

 scribed by Dr. R. DeC. Ward, of Harvard 

 University, in an article in the Bulletin 

 of the American Geographical Society. 

 One striking instance of the effect of tlae 

 drought may be cited. The withering 

 of the pasturage in the southwest com-' 

 pelled the stockmen to ship thousands 

 of cattle to the markets weeks before 

 they had planned. At Kansas City 

 alone, during the month of July, 1901, 

 263,000 more head of cattle Were re- 

 ceived than in July of the preceding 

 year. As a result the market was so 

 overstocked that the buyers dictated 

 prices. 



