IFlational (3eogvapbic /Iftaoasine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 

 Statistician of the U. S. Departmentof Agriculture 



Associate Editors 



General A. W. Greely, Marcus Baker, 



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



W J McGee, Willis L. Moore, 



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



American Ethnology Department of Agriculture 



IlHNkV CtANNETT, H. S. Pritchett, 



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



Survey and Geodetic Survey 



C. Hart INIerkiam, O. P. Austin, 



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



Departuunit of Agriculture U. S. Treasury Department 



David J. Hill, Charles H. Allen, 



Assistant Secretary of Stale Assistant Secretary of the Navy 



j:liza Ruhamah Scidmore, Carl Louise Garrison, 



Author of "fava, the Garden of Principal of Phelps School, IVash- 



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 controvers}^ 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 Samoau Islands," by Mr Edwin Morgan, Secretary of the Sanioau Commission. 

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



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

 Commission. 



"Discoveries in the Fossil Fields of Wyoming in 1899," by Prof. Wilbur C. Knight 

 of the University of Wyoming. 



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

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



Entered at the Post-office in Washing:ton, D. C, as Second-class Mail Matter. 



