THE 
National Geographic Magazine, 
PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH, 
numbers among its contributors the following well-known writers 
,on the' different branches of geographic science: 
IMr. Cyrus C. Adams, New York. 
Dr. Cyrus Adler, vSmithsoniaii Institution. 
Mr. Marcus Baker, U. S. Geological Survey. 
Capt. John R. Bartlett, U. S. N. 
Dr. Francis Brown, Union Theol. Seminary. 
Mr. E. h. Corthell, C. E., New York. ' 
Dr. Elliott Coues. 
Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing, Bureau of 
American Ethnology. 
Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., .Assistant Secre- 
tary ot Agriculture and President (on leave) 
of the Tennessee State University. 
Dr. Wm. H. Dali, Smithsonian Institution, 
Pres, of the Phil. Society of Washington. 
Dr. George Davidson, I’resident of the Geo- 
graphical Society of the Pacific. 
^Ir. Arthur P. Davis, U. S. Geological Survey. 
Mr. Wm. M. Davis, Professor of Physical Geog- 
raphy in Harvard Universit)'. 
Dr. David T. Day, Chief of the Div. of Mining 
Statistics and Technology, U. S. Geol. Sur. 
Mr. J. S. Diller, U. S. Geological Survey. 
Hon. John W. Foster, e.v-.Secretary of ,State. 
Mr. Henry Gannett, Chief Topographer, U. S. 
Geol. Sur. anrl Geographer of nth Census. 
Mr. G. K Gilbert, U. S. Geological Survey, 
Pres, of the Geol. Society of Washington. 
Gen. A. W. Greel}', U. S. A., Chief Signal 
Officer, War Department. 
Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, President of the 
National Geographic (Society. 
Dr Mark W. Harrington, President of the Uni- 
versity of the' State of Washington. 
Lieut. Everett Hayden, U. vS. N., Secretary of 
I the National Geographic Society. 
I ^Ir. Wm. II. Holmes. Dir. of the Dept, of An- 
I thropology, Field Colum. Museum, Chicago. 
i Dr. ISinil Holub, Vienna, Austiia. 
I Dr. Sheldon Jackson, U. S. Commissioner of 
Education for Alaska. 
Mr. George Kennan. 
Prof. William Libbey, Jr., Princeton Coll., N. J. 
Prof. W J McGee, Bureau of American Eth- 
nology. 
Mr. John E. McGrath, U. S. Coast Survey. 
Admiral R. W. Meade, U. S. N. 
Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, President of the Poly- 
technic Institute, Worcester, Mass. 
Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Ornithologist and Mam- 
malogist, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Hon. John H. Mitchell, U. S. vS. 
Prof. W. L- Moore, Chief of Weather Bureau. 
Mr. Frederick H. Newell, Chief Hydrographer 
of the U. S. Geological .Survey. 
Mr. Herbert G. Ogden, U. S. Coast Survey. 
Lieut. Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. 
Mrs. Robert E. Peary. 
Hon. Geo. C. Perkins, U. S. S. 
Mr. William H. Pickering, Profe.ssor of Astron- 
omy in Harvard University. 
Major John W. Powell, Director of the Bureau 
of American Ethnology and President of the 
Anthropological Society of Washington. 
Prof. W. B. Powell, .Superintendent ot Schools, 
District of Columbia. 
Hon. John R. Procter, President of the U. S. 
Civil Service Commission. 
Mr. Israel C. Russell, Profe.ssor of Geology in 
the Universit}'^ of Michigan. 
Dr. N. S. Shaler, Profes.sor of Geology in Har- 
vard University. 
Commander Charles D. Sigsbee, Hydrographer 
to the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Dept. 
Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. 
Commander Z. L Tanner, U. .S. N. 
Mr. Frank Vincent, New York. 
Hon. Charles D. Walcott, Director of the U. S. 
Geological .Survey. 
IMrs. Fannie B. Ward. 
Mr. Bailey Willis, U. S. Geological Survey. 
Among the contents of forthcoming numbers will be articles, for 
the most part illustrated, on the Panama, Nicaragua, and T'ehuantepec 
routes ; on Venezuela, by Mr. W. \i. Curtis, late Chief of the Bureau of 
j the American Republics; on the Geography, Peo})le, and Resources of 
s Costa Rica, by General Richard Villafranca, Commissioner-General to 
I the Atlanta Ivxposition ; on S(^me Recent Explorations in the Foothills 
U of the Andes of Ecuador, by Mr. Mark B. Kerr; and on Some Physical 
I Features of Lake Superior, by President M. W. I larrington. 
