IV Contents 



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 Women and Children of the East 2^ 



Notes on Central America 272 



The Giant Spider Crab from Japan 280 



Peary to Try Again 281 



International Flat Globe and Geographical History 281 



The Rock City of Petra; by Franklin E. Hoskins 283. 



Reclaiming the Swamp Lands of the United States ; by Herbert Wilson, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey 292 



The Revolution in Russia ; by William Eleroy Curtis 302- 



Some of Our Immigrants ; by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 317 



The Black Republic — Liberia; by Sir Harry Johnston and U. S. Minister Lyon, of 



Monrovia 334- 



Ore-boat Unloaders 343 



Factors which Modify the Climate of Victoria ; by Arthur W. McCurdy 345. 



Scenes from Every Land 348'' 



Photograph of Oil Well near Oil City, Pennsylvania 348- 



Echoes of the San Francisco Earthquake ; by Robert E. C. Stearns 351 



For Teaching Physiography 3S3' 



New Topographic Maps 353 



Geographic Literature 354) 



• "Two Years among the New Guinea Cannibals" (A. E. Pratt) 3S4 



The Burton Holmes Lectures (E. Burton Holmes) 354; 



Bighorn Mountains ; by N. H. Darton, of the U. S. Geological Survey 355 



Picturesque Paramaribo ; by Harriet Chalmers Adams 365 



An Impression of the Guiana Wilderness ; by Professor AngElo Heilprin, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, and Editor of Lippincott's "Gazetteer" 373 



Our Fish Immigrants; by Hugh M. Smith, Deputy U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. .. 385- 



Fishes that Build Nests and Take Care of Their Young 400 



Notes on the Remarkable Habits of Certain Turtles and Lizards; by H. A. Largelamb. 413. 

 Commercial and Financial Statistics of the Principal Countries of the World ; by O. P. 



Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics 420 



Useful Facts about the Countries of the World 424, 



Four Prominent Geographers 425 



Noles 428' 



Map of the North Pole Regions Supplement 



Some Recent Instances of National Altruism; by Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of 



War 429 



Seventy-five Days in the Arctics; by Max FlEischman, Life Member of the National 



Geographic Society 439. 



Nearest the Pole : Substance of an address to the National Geographic Society by Robert 



E. Peary 446 



Peary's Twenty-years' Service in the Arctics 451 



Map of the North Polar Regions 454. 



No Man's Land — Spitzbergen 455. 



Arctic Expeditions Commanded by Americans 458- 



North American Indians 469 



The East Indian in the New World; by Harriet Chalmers Adams 485; 



Geographical Congress 491 



Mexico— The Treasure House of the World ; by N. H. Darton, Geologist of the U. S. 



Geological Survey 493; 



Saving the Forests ; by HERBERT A. Smith, Editor of the Forest Service 519^ 



Flashlights from the Jungle— A Few Notes and Illustrations from a Remarkable Book 



by C. G. Schillings 5341 



Saint Stephen's Fete in Budapest ; by De Witt Clinton Falls 54& 



Strange Sights in Far-away Papua ; by A. E. Pratt 559, 



