CONTENTS 



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The Philippine Islands and their Environment ; by John Barrett 1 



The Cape Nome Gold District; by F. C. Schrader 15 



The Idaho and Montana Boundary Line ; by Richard U. Gooue 23 



The Copper River Delta ; by E. D. Preston 29 



Our New Possessions and the Interest they are Exciting; by O. P. Austin. 32 



The Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 28, 1900 ; by F. H. BicxEi.ow 33 



The Census of lyOO ; by F. H. Wines ". 34 



Geographic Nomenclature ; by E. W. Hilgard 36 



Puerto Rico, not Porto Rico ; [John Hyde] 37 



Geographic Literature (Hawaiian America, Casper Whitney ; The New- 

 born Cuba, Franklin Mathews ; Practical Exercises in Elementary 



^leteoiology, R. DeC. Ward ) 38 



Correspondence 40 



Some Geographic Features of Southern Patagonia, with a Discussion of 



their Origin ; by J. B. Hatcher. 41 



Kite Work of the Weather Bureau ; by H. C. Frankenfield 55 



Practical Exercises in Geography ; by W. M. Davis 02 



Professor Henry Allen Hazen 78 



Geographic Miscellanea 79 



British South Africa and the Transvaal ; by F. F. Hilder 81 



The History and Geographic Distribution of Bubonic Plague; by George 



M. Sternberg 97 



Ice Cliffs on White River, Yukon Territory ; by Martin W. Gorman 113 



A Hunting Trip to Northern Greenland ; by Fullerton Merrill 118 



A Canal from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean 122 



Diseases of the Philippines 1 23 



Geographic Miscellanea 124 



The Anglo- Venezuelan Boundary Dispute ; by Marcus Baker 129 



Korea, the Hermit Nation ; by Harrie Webster 145 



An Assumed Inconstancy in the Level of Lake Nicaragua; by C. Willard 



Haves 15G 



The Isthmian Canal Commission Kil 



Helping Navigation 1()2 



International Arbitration and its Possibilities 102 



Railway Construction and Improvements 103 



Where Exploration is Needed 103 



Work in the Arctic and Antarctic 164 



Geographic Literature (Contemporary History of the World, E. A. Gros- 



venor) 105 



Geographic Mi.scellanea 107 



The Growth of Russia ; by Edwin A. CJrosvenor 109 



