Plant Geography. — Physiography and Soils, 41 
by CHARLES W. Haves and M. R. CampgeLt. However, the most important 
series of pamphlets on the physiography of North America appeared as National 
Geographic Monographs prepared under the auspices of the National Geographic 
Society in 1895. Ten of these monographs by J. W. PowELL, N. S. SHALER, 
I. C. Russe, BaıLey WiLuıs, C. WILLARD HAavES, J. S. DILLER, W. M. Davis 
and G. K. GILBERT have been issued and are -replete with interest to the 
phytogeographer. 
Three volumes of STANFORD’s Compendium of Geography deal with North 
and Central America. North America is represented by two volumes one on 
Canada and Newfoundland by SAMUEL EDWARD Dawson published in 1897 
and a second by HENRY GANNETT on The United States (1898). — The second 
volume of two devoted to Central and South America deals with Central 
America and West Indies by A. H. KEANE published in ıgo1. The handbooks 
dealing with the Central American countries issued under the auspices of the 
U. S. Bureau of: American Republics have been found extremely useful, as 
reference texts, as also the publications of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum 
on Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. — For the West Indies, ROBERT 
T. Hırr’s book Cuba and Porto Rico with the Other Islands of the West 
Indies 1898 has been frequentiy consulted. GANNETT’s Dictionary of Altitudes 
in the United States (third edition), published as bulletin 160 (United States 
Geological Survey) in 1899, is a useful compendium of important data and 
the second report of the United States Board on Geographic Names published 
in 1900 was at hand for reference. — The articles of CARL SAPPER, as an 
authority on the physiography of the Central American States, are invaluable 
for the states of Guatemala and Honduras. These appeared in German journals 
ın 1895 and 1902 respectively. i 
For details of American physiography must be mentioned in closing an 
article by MCGEE in the National Geographic Magazine 1896 on the Geo- 
graphic History of the Piedmont Plateau. The Topography of ea by 
NoaH F. Drake appeared in the fifth volume of the Journal of EEROER 
G . K. GILBERT contributed in 1898 to the National Geographic er ” 
Important article on the Origin of the Physical Features of the United States 
and in the Journal of Geology for 1903. A. W. G. WILSON discusses jun 
Laurentian peneplain. The Topography of Mexico is an important article by 
HERBERT M. Wirson in the Bulletin American Geological Society for 1897. 
Notes on the Drainage of the Pennsylvania Appalachians by W. M. Davıs 
was printed by the Boston Society of Natural History in its twenty-hfth volume. 
G. M. Dawson published in Popular Science Monthly (XXX VII: 3 53) ® 
article entitled Later Physiographic Geography of the Rocky Mountains - 
Canada. The Age of the California Coast Range by W. H. ee 
\ Published in the eighteenth volume of the American Geologist is an impo! of 
‘one to plant geographers. C. WırLarD HaveEs contributed to the Bulletin = 
‘he Geological Society of America (X: 285) a paper with the title Physiograph 
— A book 
and Geology of the Region adjacent to the Nicaragua Canal Route. — A 
