CONTENTS 
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Introductory; [John Hyde].., 1 
Russia in Europe; by Gardiner G. Hubbard 3 
Tlie Arctic Cruise of the U. S. Revenue Cutter Benr ; by Sheldon 
Jackson 27 
The Scope and Value of Arctic Explorations; by A. W. Greely. ... 32 
Obituary (Robert Brown, Admiral Pearse, Henry Seebohm, Rear 
Admiral Shufeldt) 40 
Geographic Literature (Elementary Physical Geography, Tarr ; The 
Gold Diggings of Cape Horn, Spears; South Africa, Keane; 
National Geographic Monographs, Powell, Shaler, Russell, Wil- 
lis, Diller, Davis, Gilbert, and Hayes ; Tibet, Rockhill ; Chili, 
Bianconi ; Highways of Commerce, Consular Office) 40 
Executive Reports (War, Navy, Post Office, and Interior Depart- 
ments; Interstate Commerce Commission) 43 
New Maps 45 
Proceedings of the National Geographic Society .' 46 
North American Notes 48 
Venezuela: Her Government, People, and Boundary; by William 
E. Curtis 49 
The Panama Canal Route ; by Robert T. Hill 59 
The Tehuantepec Ship Railway ; by Elmer L. Corthell 64 
The Present State of the Nicaragua Canal; by A. W. Greely 73 
Explorations by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1895 ; b}^ 
W J McGee 77 
Geographic Literature (The Yellowstone National Park, Chittenden ; 
Sixteenth Annual Report of the IT. S. Geological Surve 3 ’', etc. . . 80 
Y ucatan in 1895 83 
Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 86 
Geographic Notes. 87 
The Valley of the Orinoco ; by T. H. Gignilliat. 92 
Tlie So-called “Jeannette Belies” ; by William H. Dall 93 
Nansen’s Polar Expedition ; by A. W. Greely 98 
The Submarine Cables of the World ; by Gustave Herrle. ....... 102 
Peter Cooper and Submarine Telegraphy ; [A. W. Grelly] 108 
The Russo-Ymerican Telegraph Project of 1864-’67; by W. H. Dall. 110 
Survey and Subdivision of Indian Territory ; by Henry Gannett. . . 1J2 
“ Free Burghs ” in the United States ; by Jamls H. Blodgeit 116 
Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 122 
Miscellanea 124 
Seriland ; by W J McGnu and Willard D. Johnson 125 
The Olympic Country ; by S. C. Gilman 133 
The Discovery of Glacier Bay, Alaska ; bv Eliza R. Scidmore. ... 140 
Hydrography in the United States ; by Frederick H. Newell 146 
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