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S^e NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



3SI 



DECEMBER. 1907 



No. 12 



CONTENTS 

 Madeira on the Way to Italy. By David Fairchild. With 20 Illuftrations. 



A Simple Method of Proving that the Earth is Round. By Robert 



Marshall Brown. Illuarated. 

 The Modem Alchemist. By Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



lUu&ated. 



The Uses of Nuts as Food. 



American Discoveries in Egypt. Illuflrated. 



The Truth About the Congo. lUuflrated. 



Geographical Books of the Year. lUuflrated. 



Proposed Change in the By-laws of the National Geographic 

 Society. 



Imagination and Geography. 



Published by the National Geographic Society 



Hubbard Memorial Hall 



Washington, D. C. 



$2.50 a Year 25' Cents a Number 



Entered at the Post-Offlce at Washington, 0. C. as Second-Class Mail Matter 

 Copyright, 1907, by the National Geoaraphic Society, Washington, D. C. All rights reserved 



