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gratuitously, these sell for a dollar each, unbound. As in the case 

 of many other important works, the writing and printing took 

 longer than was expected, and they caxue out too late in the sum- 

 mer to be of service to all the visitors to the expositions and A. A. 

 A. S. meetings. (The months of publication are not indicated, 

 but Part B was distributed about July i, Part A in August, and 

 Parts C and D in September.) 



Part A deals with the Northern Pacific route, from St. Paul to 

 Seattle, with a side-trip from Livingston, Mont., to Yellowstone 

 Park; Part B with the "Overland Route," from Council Bluffs 

 to San Francisco, with a side-trip from Ogden, Utah, to Yellow- 

 stone Park; Part C with the Santa Fe route, from Kansas City 

 to Los Angeles, with a side-trip from Williams, Ariz., to the 

 Grand Canyon; and Part D with the "Shasta Route" and coast 

 line, froxu Seattle to Los Angeles. (Two very interesting and popu- 

 lar transcontinental routes, the Denver & Rio Grande and the 

 "Sunset Route," which are quite different from either of those 

 described, and two additional routes traversing the same states as 

 the Northern Pacific, are not provided for.) 



Each bulletin describes in as simple language as possible what 

 the intelligent traveler who is not a geologist would see from the 

 train if he made the whole journey by daylight. The numerous 

 sectional maps are on a large enough scale so that all important 

 topographic features in sight can be identified. Although the 

 geological treatment is naturally the most complete (no doubt 

 partly because geological features are more conspicuous in the 

 West than in the East, owing to the sparsity of the vegetation in 

 the arid regions), there is abundant information about topog- 

 raphy, while forests, crops, and other scenic and economic features 

 are not neglected, and there are many historical, biographical, 

 and paleontological notes, occasional references to climate, and a 

 bibliography in each part. Most of the half-tone illustrations, 

 which are well chosen and executed, give some idea of the pre- 

 vailing vegetation, and a few are strictly botanical; for example, 

 a scene in the dense forests of Washington, a full-page plate of 

 Sericotheca (Schizonotus) discolor, a handsome rosaceous shrub 

 growing in the same state, and some Arizona desert vegetation. 



