CONTENTS 



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The National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909; by Ralph S. Tarr, of 

 Cornell University, and Lawrence Martin, of the University of Wisconsin, Leaders 



of the Expedition j 



Photography in Glacial Alaska; by O. D. vox Engeln, Photographer of the National 



Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909 c^j 



The Discovery of the North Pole 63 



The Coal-Fields of Alaska : With a Few Notes on the Mineral Wealth of the Territory 83 



Acknowledgments 88 



The National Geographic Society ... 88 



The New York Aquarium 90 



A Traveler's Notes on Java ; by Henry G. P>ryant 91 



An Ancient Capital; l)y Isabel F. Dodd, Professor of Art and Archeology in the Ameri- 

 can College for Girls, Constantinople m 



The Liternational }*lillionth Map of the World; by Bailey Willis, U. S. Geological 



Survey 125 



The Land of the Crossbow ; by George Forrest 132 



The Great Natural Bridges of Utah ; by Byron Cummings, LTniversity of Utah 157 



The South Polar Expedition 167 



Wilkes' and D'LTrville's Discoveries in Wilkes Land; by Rear Admiral John E. Pills- 

 bury, U. S. Navy 171 



The Great Ice Barrier ; by Henry Gannett 173 



The Barrage of the Nile ; by Day AllEn WillEy 175 



National Geographic Society 184 



The Race for the South Pole 185 



Romantic Spain ; by Charles Upson Clark, of Yale University 187 



A New National Park ; by Guy Elliott Mitchell, U. S. Geological Survey 215 



The Most Curious Craft Afloat. The Compass in Navigation and the Work of the 

 Non-Magnetic Yacht "Carnegie" ; by L. A. Bai'ER, Director of Department of 



Research in Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington 223 



The Duke of the Abruzzi in the Himalayas 245 



In Valais ; by Louise Murray 249 



Scenes in Switzerland 257 



Deer Fanr.ing in the LInited States 269 



National Geographic Society 276 



Landslides and Rock Avalanches ; by Guy Elliott Mitchell 'Z.-j-] 



Mukden, the Manchu Home, and its Great Art Museum; by Eliza R. ScidmorE 289 



Scenes in Italy 3-i 



The Spirit of the West : The Wonderful Agricultural Development Since the Dawn of 



Irrigation ; by C. J. Blanch ard, U. S. Reclamation Service ^ 333 



Artesian Water Predictions 3^1 



Ascending Mont Blanc 363 



National Geographic Society 305 



The National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition 370 



The House-Fly ; by N. A. Cobb 37i 



Notes on the Distances Flies Can Travel ; by N. A. Cobb 380 



Fight the Flies 383 



Camera Adventures in the African Wilds 385 



The First Transandine Railroad from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso; by Harriet Chal- 

 mers Adams -^9" 



The First Transandine Train 4^7 



Federal Fish Farming; or, Planting Fish by the Billion; by Hugh M. Smith, U. S. 



Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries 4^8 



Our Coal Lands ; by Guy Elliott Mitchell 446 



Fishes that Carry Lanterns 453 



Some Tramps Across the Glaciers and Snowfields of British Columbia; by Howard 



Palmer "^^^ 



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