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An illustrated monthly, published for the 

 National Geographic Society, of Washing- 

 • ton, D. C, by McClure, Phillips & Co., at 

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 the Managing Editor of the National Geographic 

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Editor-in-Chief: HENRY GANNETT 



Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Surrey 



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GENERAL A. W. GREELY, 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W J McGEE, 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology 



C. BART MERRIAM, 



Chief of the Biological Surrey, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



DAVID J. HILL, 



Assistant Secretary of State 

 ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE, 



Author of " Java, the Garden of 

 the East," etc. 



MARCUS BAKER, 



(I. S. Geological Surrey 



WILLIS L. MOORE, 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, V. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



O. H. TITTMANN, 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Surrey 



O. P. AUSTIN, 



Chief, ef the Bureau of Statistics, 

 U. S. Treasury Department 



IDA M. TARBELL, 



Author of "Life of Napoleon, " "Life 

 of Lincoln," etc. 



CARL LOUISE GARRISON, 



Principal of Phelps School, Wash- 

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