THE 



IKlational (3eograpbic iHbaQasine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 

 Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Associate Editors 



Gknkrai. a. W. Greely, Marci's Baker, 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A^iny U. S. Geological Survey 



W J McGee, \Viij<is ly. Moore, 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau of Chief of the Weather Bureau, U.S. 



America}! Ethnology Department of Agricultut-e 



Henry Gannett, H. S. Pritchett, 



Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 



Survey and Geodetic Survey 



C. Hart Merriam, O. P. Aistin, 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 



Department of Agriculture U. S. Treasury Department 



David J. Hiu^, Charles H. Au-EN, 



Assistant Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of the Navy 



Euza Ruhamah Scidmore, Cart, Louise Garrison, 



Author of ''fava, the Garden of Pnncipal of Phelps School, Wash- 



the East,'' etc. ington, D. C. 



Assistant Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, Washington, D. C. 



The list of contributors to the National Geographic Magazine 

 inchides nearly every United States citizen whose name has become iden- 

 tified with Arctic exploration, the Bering Sea controversy, the Alaska and 

 Vene/Aiela boundary disputes, or the new commercial and political questions 

 arising from the acquisition of the Philippines. 



The following articles will appear in the Magazine within the next few 

 months : 



" Russia,' by Professor P^dwiu A. Grosvenor of Amherst College, Massachusetts. 



" The Venezuelan Boundary," bj- Mr Marcus Baker of the Venezuelan Commission. 



"The Sainoan Islands," by Mr Edwin Morgan, Secretary of the Satnoan Commission. 



"British vSouth Africa and the Transvaal, " by Col. F. P\ Hilder, Bureau of .American 

 Rlhnology. 



"The Characteristics of the Filipinos," by Hon. Dean C. Worcester of the Pliilippine 

 Commission. 



"F^xplorations on the Yaugtse-Kiaug, Chiua," by Mr Wm. Barclay Parsons, C. E., 

 surveyor of the railway route through the Yaugtse-Kiang Valley. 



" Patagonia," by Mr J. B. Hatcher of Princeton University, who has passed the prin- 

 cipal part of the last four years in the exploration of this little-known region. 



The index for volume X, 1S99, will accompany the February number. 



