THE 



National Geographic IVIagazine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE. 



Statistician of the U. S. Departinent of Agriculture 



Associate Editors 



General a. \V. Greely, Marcus Baker, 



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



W J McGee, Willis L. IMoore, 



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



American Ethnology Department of A gHcultuie 



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. Austin, 



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



Department of Agriculture U.S. Treasury Department 



David J. Hill, Charles H. Allen, 



Assistant Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of the Navy 



Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Carl Louise Garrison, 



Author of ''Java, the Garden of Principal 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 

 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 Edwiu A. Grosvenor of Amherst College, Massachusetts. 



"The Colonial Expansion of France," by Professor Jean C. Bracq of Vassar College, 

 Poughkeepsie, New York. 



"The Satnoau Islands," by Mr Edwiu Morgan, Secretary of the Samoan Commission. 



"The Native Tribes of Patagonia," by Mr J. B. Hatcher of the Carnegie Museum, 

 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 



"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 Yaugtse-Kiang, China," by Mr Wm. Barclay Parsons, C. E., 

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



Entered at the Post-ofi&ce in Washington, D. C, as Second-class Mail Matter. 



