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The National Geographic Magazine 



West, back in the days when the Repub- 

 Hc was young. Friend, however, was not 

 interested. Juhet's image still hung in 

 mist before his eyes. -Not even the army 

 officers at the fort, one of whom had been 



in New York, could shake ofif the dream ; 

 and so we turned to the hotel for supper ; 

 then I to the note book and he to — bed, 

 while a graphophone on the floor below 

 pealed out snatches from Carmen. 



GEOLOGISTS IN CHINA 



THE Carnegie Institution has just 

 published the first two volumes 

 of the report of its geological expedition 

 to China in 1903-4. The report is en- 

 tirely technical, being intended only for 

 the information of geologists. But the 

 authors have included a large number 

 of unusually handsome illustrations, 

 which give a general interest to the work. 

 Through the courtesy of the Carnegie 

 Institution, several of these pictures are 

 printed in the following pages. With 

 the exception of the extended geological 

 research in China by Baron Ferdinand 

 Von Richthofen, thirty years previous, 

 this expedition by Messrs Bailey Willis, 

 Eliot Blackwelder, and R. H. Sargent is 

 the only geologic exploration of China 

 that has been made, and the results ob- 



tained give the report unusual value to 

 geologists. 



MAP OF AFRICA 



THE December number of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Magazine 

 will contain a large map of Africa, 15 

 b}' 20 inches and in seven colors. The 

 map will show the latest explorations, 

 giving the routes of the principal explor- 

 ers of the continent, and also the posses- 

 sions and spheres of influence of each 

 European power. It will also show all 

 railway and telegraph lines, constructed 

 and proposed. In view of the recent 

 rapid commercial development of nearly 

 all sections of Africa, and present interest 

 in Morocco and the Kongo, it is believed . 

 the readers of this Magazine will find the 

 map particularly useful. 



Photo by Bailey W illis, Carnegie Institution 



Cultivated Terraces in Central China 



