THE 



IHlational (3eograpbic /llbaGasine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 

 Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Associate Editors 



General A. W. Greely, Marcus Baker, 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Arviy U. S.. Geological Survey 



W J McGee, Willis L. Moore, 



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



Americatt Ethnology Department of Agriculture 



Henry Gannett, H. S. Pritchett, 



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



Survey and Geodetic Survey 



C. Hart Mkrkiam, O. P. Austin, 



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



Department of Agriculture U. S. Treasury Department 



I'AviD J. Hill, CifAwrm h. Allen, 



Assistant Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of the Navy 



JCliza Ruhamah vScidmore, Cakl Louise Garrison, 



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



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



Assistant Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, V^ashington, D. C. 



The list of contributors to the National Geographic Magazine 

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

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

 Venezuela 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 Edwin A. Grosvenor of Amherst College, Massachusetts. 



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



"The Samoan Islands," by Mr Edwin Morgan, Secretary of the Sanioau Commission. 



"The Native Tribes of Patagonia," by Mr J. B. Hatcher of Princeton University. 



"British South Africa and the Transvaal," by Col. F. F. Hilder, Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



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

 Commission. 



" Discoveries in the Fossil Fields of Wyoming in 1S99," by Prof. Wilbur C. Knight 

 of the University of Wyoming. 



"Explorations on the Yangtse-Kiang, China," by Mr Wm. Barclay Parsons, C. E., 

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



