THE 



National Geographic IVIagazine 



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. Army U. S. Geological Survey 



W J McGee, Wilus L. Moore. 



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



American Ethnology Department of Agriculttiie 



Henry Gannett, H. S. Pritchett, 



Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Superijitendent of the (J. 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, 



Departtnent of Agriculture U.S. Treasury Department 



David J. PIiix, Charles H. Allen, 



Assistant Secretary of State Governor of Porto Rico 



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 

 inckides 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 : 



"The Road to Bolivia," by Hon. Wm. E. Curtis. 



"The Growth of Germany," by Professor J. L- Ewell of Howard University. 



"The Annexation of the West," by F. H. Newell, Hydrographer, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



"The Growth of England," by Dr Edwin D. Mead, Editor of the New England 

 Magazine. 



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

 Poughkeepsie, New York. 



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

 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 



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

 survej-or of the railway route through the Yangtse-Kiang Valley. 



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



