CONTENTS 
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The "Weather Bureau Eiver and Flood System ; by Willis L. Moori:. 302 
Cliarles Francis Hall and Jones Sound ; [A. W. Greely] 3CaS 
^lineral Production in the United States 310 
Reports of Sealing Schooners from Tuscarora Deep ; by Eliza R. Scid- 
MORE 310 
Geographic Notes 312 
The American Association at Buffalo ; [W J AIcGee] •. 315 
Death of G. Brown Goode; [W J McGee] 316 
California; by George C. Perkins 317 
The Economic Aspects of Soil Erosion ; by N. S. Siialer [I] 328 
The Nansen Polar Expedition; by Ernest A. Man 339 
Ice-cliffs on the Kowak River; by J. C. Cantwell 345 
Recent Hydrographic Work ; [F. H. Newell] 347 
Miscellanea 348 
The Witwatersrand and the Revolt of the Uitlanders ; by George F. 
Becker ... 349 
The Economic AsjDects of Soil Erosion; by N. S. Shaler [II] 368 
A Critical Period in South African History; [John Hyde] 377 
Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 379 
Geographic Notes 380 
Report of the Sixth International Geographical Congress. 380 
The Geography of the Southern Peninsula of the United States; by 
John N. MacGonigle 381 
Tlie Sage Plains of Oregon ; by Frederick V. Covii.le 395 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture and its Biological Survey ; [John 
Ha’de] 405 
Statistics of Railways in the United States ; [Henry' Gannett] 406 
Geographic Work in Peru ; [W J McGee] 407 
Geographic Literature (The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes 
to which it is due, Lubbock ; Frye’s Home and School Atlas; 
Lakes of North America, Russell) 408 
Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 410 
Geographic Notes 411 
Miscellanea 412 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
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Pl.vte 1 — Map of Russia in Europe 1 
2 — United States revenue-marine steamer Bear, moored to a 
field of ice in B(*ringsea 27 
3 — Herd of reindeer lying down 28 
4— Scene at Point Barrow in April 30 
5 — Map of the Orinoco valley 49 
6 — La Giiayra, from the east 52 
7 — Valley of Caracas, east of the capitid, with coffee and sugar 
j)Iantations .54 
