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The National Geographic Magazine 



reading is doubtless largely responsible 

 for the numerous blunders on the out- 

 line map at the end. The most attract- 

 ive and perhaps the most accurate fea- 

 ture of the book is its dainty illustra- 

 tions by Mr. Sydney Cooper. 



Edwin A. Grosvenor. 



Primitive Man. By Dr. Moriz Hoernes. 

 Translated from the German by James 

 H. Loewe. With illustrations. New 

 York: The Macmillan Co. $0.40. 

 This volume presents in compact form 

 what is known of primitive man. The 

 style is uninteresting, so that it is doubt- 

 ful if the book will appeal to any except 

 the professional anthropologist. 



The Wisconsin Geological and Natural 

 History Survey has published a bulletin 

 entitled ' ' The Clays and Clay Indus- 

 tries of Wisconsin," by Dr. E. R. Buck- 

 ley (Bulletin vn (part 1), Economic 

 Series, No. 4). Wisconsin possesses 

 clays which are adapted to the manu- 

 facture of all kinds of brick, common 

 and ornamental, and also for earthen- 

 ware and porcelain. Hitherto these 

 resources have not been much developed, 

 owing to the great forests, which fur- 

 nished abundance of timber for con- 

 struction. The increase in the price of 

 lumber, because of decrease of supply, 

 will probably soon encourage the man- 

 ufacture of bricks. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



PROCEEDINGS 

 Meetings of the Society : 



November 29, 1901.— President Graham Bell 

 in the chair. 



Dr. Arthur P. Davis, Hydrographer of the 

 Isthmian Canal Commission, read a paper on 

 ' ' The Best Isthmian Canal Route. ' ' Mr. Davis 

 treated the question from the commercial and 

 economic points of view only. Commercial 

 and economic arguments, Mr. Davis believed, 

 were largely in favor of the Panama route. 

 Further notice of this paper will appear later 

 in this Magazine. 



December 13. — President Graham Bell in the 

 chair. 



' ' The Northwest Boundary ' ' was the sub- 

 ject of three papers ; Mr. C. H. Sinclair, of 

 the U. S- Coast and Geodetic Survejr, and 

 Messrs. E. C. Barnard and Bailey Willis, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. The papers will 

 be published later. 



Lectures : 



December 6. — President Graham Bell in the 

 chair. 



Prof. A. C. Haddon, of Oxford, England, 

 gave an illustrated address on " The Natives 

 of Borneo." 



December 22. — President Graham Bell in the 

 chair. 



Hon. E. J- Hill, member of Congress from 

 Connecticut, gave an address on the " Trans- 

 Siberian Railway," which will be published 

 in the February number of this Magazine. 



ANNOUNCEMENTS 



Popular Lectures : 



January 17, 1902. — "American Progress and 

 Prospects in the Philippines;" Gen. A. W. 

 Greely, Chief Signal Officer, TJ. S. Army. 



General Greely has returned to America after 

 an extended tour among the Philippine Islands. 

 As an example of American progress in the 

 Philippines, it may be stated that 6,000 miles 

 of telegraph lines and cables have been put up 

 in these islands by the U. S. Signal Corps in 

 the three years since the capture of Manila. 

 Telegraph and cable connections are now com- 

 plete between the northern coast of Luzon and 

 Jolo, 1,000 miles to the south. 



January 31. — " Present Conditions in South 

 Africa ; " James F. J. Archibald, the well- 

 known war correspondent. 



Mr. Archibald was with the Boer army in 

 the South African war until the occupation of 

 Pretoria. Later he was with the British army 

 for several months, and has thus seen the 

 country from both sides. Previous service in 

 the Chinese-Japanese war, with General Miles 

 in various Indian campaigns, in the Santiago 

 campaign, and with the British forces in the 

 Sudan in 1S99, had given him unusual experi- 

 ence for accurate and practical observation. 



Meetings of the Society : 



January 10, 1902. — Annual Meeting, Reports, 

 and Elections. 



January 24. — ' ' The Magnetic Survey of the 

 United States," Dr. L. A. Bauer, U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey ; " Ocean Currents," Mr. 

 James Page, U. S. Hydrographic Office. 



