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, Willis L. Moore, 



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



A tnerican Ethnology Department of A gricultuie 



Henry Gannett, H. S. Pritchett, 



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



Survey and Geodetic Suri'ey 



C. Hart Merkiam, O. P. Austin, 



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



Departfuent of Agriculture U. S. Treasury Department 



David J. Hill, Charles H. Allen, 



Assistant Secretary of State Governor of Porto Rico 



Eliza 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, T^ashingtou, 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 : 



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



"The Dikes of Holland," by Gerard H. Matthes, U. S. Geological Survey. 



"The Manila Observatory," by Jos6 Algue, S. J., Director of the Manila Observatory. 



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

 Survey. 



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

 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 



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

 surveyor of the railway route through the Yangtze Valley. 



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



