The National Geographic Magazine 



cold blood, but in that same instant my shots 

 took effect mortally and both rhinoceroses 

 collapsed." 



Dr Schillings' pictures will constantly en- 

 hance in value, for the time is not distant when 

 the huge beasts he so vividly describes will be 

 as rare as the American buffalo. 



E. M. G. 



The Uncompahgre Valley and the Gunnison 

 Tunnel. By Barton W. Marsh. Pp. 151. 

 S]4 by 8% inches. Illustrated. Montrose, 

 Colo. : Marsh and Torrence. 1905. 

 The compilers of this volume state in their 

 preface that their object is "to assist those who 

 contemplate making a chawge of location, as 

 well as for the distribution of accurate knowl- 

 edge of this part of the country." Useful in- 

 formation is given about the situation and sur- 

 roundings of the valley, resources and products 

 ■of the land, present water supply, climate, 

 towns and industries, educational advantages, 

 and finally the advantages of irrigation by 

 turning the waters of the Uncompahgre River 

 into the valley by means of the Gunnison Tun- 

 nel. 



NATIONAL :GE0GRAPHIC SOCIETY 



January 4 — "German East Africa." By Dr 

 Louis Livingstone Seaman, of New York. Il- 

 lustrated. 



January 18 — ^"Camping Expeditions in the 

 Canadian Rockies." By Mr Howard Du Bois. 



January 25 — "Bolivia — a Country Without a 

 Debt." By the Bolivian Minister, Seiior F. 

 Calderon. Illustrated. 



February i — "The Rising Pacific Empire." 

 By Hon. George C. Perkins, U. S. Senator 

 from California. 



February 8 — "The Guianas." By Prof. 

 Angelo Heilprin, of Yale University. Illus- 

 trated. 



February 15 — "Ten Years of Polar Work; 

 or, What We Know and What We Want to 

 Know." By Mr Herbert L. Bridgman, Secre- 

 tary of the Peary Arctic Club. Illustrated. 



February ig — "Two Thousand Miles in the 

 Saddle through Colombia and Ecuador." By 

 Hon. John Barrett, U. S. Minister to Colombia. 

 Illustrated. 



March l — "Santo Domingo and Haiti." By 

 Rear Admiral Chester, U. S. Navy. Illustrated. 



March 15 — "The Regeneration of Korea." 

 By Mr George Kennan. Illustrated. 



March 21 — "Our Immigrants : Where They 

 Come Prom, What They Are, and What They 

 Do After They Get Here." By Hon. F. P. 

 Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigra- 

 tion. Illustrated. 



March 23 — "Queer Methods of Travel in 

 Curious Corners of the World." By Hon. O. 

 P. Austin, Chief Bureau of Statistics. Illus- 

 trated. 



March 29 — "Mexico — the Treasure-house of 

 the World." By Mr N. H. Darton, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



April 5— "A Popular Explanation of Earth- 

 quakes and Volcanoes." By Dr G. K. Gilbert, 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



April 12— "Captain John Smith and Old 

 Jamestown." By Mr. W. W. Ellsworth, Secre- 

 tary of the Century Co. 



Announcements will be made later of ad- 

 dresses by Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. 

 Navy, who has recently attained "Farthest 

 North," and by Dr F. A. Cook, of Brooklyn, 

 who has accomplished the first ascent of Mount 

 McKinley, the highest mountain in North 

 America. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



The meetings of this course will be held at 

 the home of the Society, Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall, Sixteenth and M streets, at 8 p. m., on the 

 following dates : 



January 11 — Annual Meeting. "Aboriginal 

 Agriculture in Guatemala." By Mr O. F. Cook, 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Illus- 

 trated. 



January 22— "The Coal Lands of the U. S. 

 Public Domain." By Mr M. R. Campbell, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



February 9 — "A Visit to Sumatra." By Mr 

 George H. Peters, of the U. S. Naval Observa- 

 tory. Illustrated. 



February 18 — "Reclaiming the Desert." By 

 Mr C. J. Blanchard, of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service. Illustrated. The Reclamation Serv- 

 ice has a fund of $40,000,000, which is being in- 

 vested in irrigation works. 



February 22 — "Reclaiming the Swamp Lands 

 of the United States." By Mr H. M. Wilson, 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



February 28 — "Acclimatizing Fishes — or 

 Transplanting Fishes from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, and Vice Versa, etc." By Dr Hugh 

 M. Smith, Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of 

 Fisheries. Illustrated. 



March 8 — "Twenty Years in Beirut and 

 Damascus ; or. The Syria of Today." By Rev. 

 F. E. Hoskins. Illustrated. 



March 11.— "The U. S. Forest Service." By 

 Mr Gifford Pinchot, Forester. Illustrated. The 

 Forest Service has charge of 1x4,606,058 acres 

 of forest land, worth $400,000,000. 



March 22 — "Utilizing the Surface Waters of 

 the United States for Power." By Mr H. A. 

 Pressey, C. E. Illustrated. 



April 6— "The South Sea Islanders." By Mr 

 A. B. Alexander, of the U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries. Illustrated. 



April 15 — "Photographs of Wild Game Taken 

 by Themselves." By Hon. George Shiras, 3d. 

 Illustrated. 



April 19 — "A Trip to Argentine and Para- 

 guay." By Mr John W. Titcomb, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries. Illustrated. 



