SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The National Geographic Magazine has a few unbound volumes for 

 the 3^ears 1896, 1897, and 1898. Each volume contains numerous maps and 

 illustrations and much valuable geographic matter. It is impossible to give 

 the contents of each volume, but the following subjects show their wide 

 range and scope : 



Vol. VII, 1896: Russia in Europe, by the late Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard; 

 The Scope and Value of Arctic Exploration, by Gen. A. W. Greely, U.S.A. ; Venezuela, 

 Her Government, People, and Boundary, by William E. Curtis; The So-called 

 Jeanette Kelics, by Wm. H. Dall ; Nansen's Polar Expedition, by Gen. A. W. Greely, 

 U.S.A.; The Submarine Cables of the World (with chart 49x30 inches); Seriland, 

 by W J McGee and Willard D. Johnson; The Discovery of Glacier Bay, Alaska, by 

 E. R. Scidniore; Hydrography in the United States, by F. H. Newell; Africa since 

 1S88, by the late Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard ; The Seine, The Meuse, and The Moselle, 

 by Prof. Wm. M. Davis; The Work of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, by Henry 

 Gannett; A Journey in Ecuador, by W. B. Kerr; Geographic History of the Piedmont 

 Plateau, by W J McGee; The Recent Earthquake Wave on the Coast of Japan, by E. R. 

 Scidniore; California, by Senator Geo. C. Perkins; The Witwatersrand and the Revolt 

 of the Uitlanders, by George F. Becker; The Sage Plains of Oregon, by F. V. Coville. 



Vol. VIII, 1897: The Gold Coast, Ashanti and Kumassi, by Geo. K. French ; 

 Crater Lake, Oregon, by J. S. Diller ; Storms and Weather Forecasts, by Willis L. Moore ; 

 Kul)ber Forests of Nicaragua and Sierra Leone, by Gen. A. W. Greely, U.S.A. ; A Sum- 

 mer Voyage to the Arctic, by G. R. Putnam ; A Winter Voyage through the Straits of 

 Magellan, by the late Admiral R. W. Meade, U.S.N. ; Costa Rica, by Senor Ricardo 

 Villafranca; The National Foiest Reserve, by F. H. Newell; The Forests and Deserts of 

 A rizona, by B. E. Fernow ; Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement, by G. K. 

 Gilbert; The Enchanted Mesa, by F. W. Hodge; Patagonia, by J. B. Hatcher; The 

 Washington Aqueduct and Cabin John Bridge, by Capt. D. D. Gaillard, U.S.A. 



Vol. IX, 1898: Three Weeks in Hubbard Bay, West Greenland, by Robert 

 Stein; The Modern Mississipi^i Problem, by W J McGee; Dwellings of the Saga-Time 

 in Iceland, Greenland, and Vineland, by Cornelia Horsford ; Articles on Alaska, by Gen. 

 A. W. Greely, U.S.A., Hamlin Garland, E. R. Scidmore, Prof Wm. H. Dall, and others; 

 on Cuba, by Robert T. Hill, Frank M. Chapman, John Hyde, and Henry Gannett; on 

 the Philippines, by Dean C. Worcester, Col. F. F. Hilder, John Hyde, and Charles E. 

 Howe ; American Geographic Education, by W J McGee ; Origin of the Physical 

 Features of the United States, by G. K. Gilbert ; Geographic Work of the General 

 Government, by Henry Gannett ; Papagueria, by W J McGee ; The Bitter Root Forest 

 Reserve, by R. U. Goode ; Lake Chelan, by Henry Gannett ; The Geospheres, by W J 

 McGee; Sumatra's West Coast, by D. G. Fairchild ; The Five Civilized Tribes in the 

 Survey of Lidian Territory, by C. H. Fitch; Cloud Scenery of the High Plains, by 

 Willard D. Johnson; Atlantic Coast Tides, by M. S. W. Jefferson. 



Each volume may be had for $2.00. To obtain any of the 

 above mentioned articles, send 25 cents in stamps, indicating 

 merely the title of the article desired. 



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