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Minnesota's System of Preventing Forest Fires ; by C. C. Andrews 357 



The Farm Woodlot ; by Frank C. Miller 358 



Geographic Notes 358 



The Baldwin-Ziegler Arctic Expedition 358 



American Anthropological Association 359 



Our Northern Rockies ; by R. H. Chapman 361 



Limiting Width of Meander Belts ; by Mark S. W. Jefferson ■ 373 



Peary's Work in 1901-1902 384 



Geographic Notes 386 



Reclamation Service 386 



Coal in Alaska 388 



The Sverdrup Arctic Expedition ." 38S 



The Brooks Alaskan Expedition 389 



Reported Entrance of Lhasa 389 



Miss Eliza R. Scidmore 389 



John Wesley Powell 393 



The Course of the Retail Coal Trade ; by David T. Day 394 



Submerged Valleys in Sandusky Bay ; by E. L- MoSELY 398 



Place Names of the United States 403 



Among the Great Himalayan Glaciers 405 



Geographic Notes 407 



U*. S. Signal Corps 407 



David Charles Bell : 407 



Russian and American Petroleum 408 



Geographical Society of Baltimore 408 



Decisions of the U. S. Board on Geographic Names 409 



Census of the Philippines 409 



Mt. Foraker 409 



The Completion of the Cable between Canada and Australia 410 



A Bulletin on the Louisiana Oil Field 410 



Note from Dr George Davidson 410 



Geographic Literature 410 



" Through Hidden Shensi " (Francis H. Nichols) 410 



" The White World " (arranged by Rudolf Kersting) 410 



" Vienna and the Viennese " (Marie Hornor Lansdale) 411 



" Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1901 " (David T. Day) 411 



" Picturesque Sicily " (William Agnew Paton) 41 1 



" Stanford's Compendium of Geography " (A. H. Keane) 411 



"All the Russias " (Henry Norman) 412 



" Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes " (Edward S. Morse) 412 



" International Year Book for 1901 " (Frank Moore Colby) 413 



"The Home Life of the Borneo Head-Hunters " (William Henry Furness) 413 



"Japan and Her People " (Anna C. Hartshorne) 413 



" Historical Sources in Schools " (Charles D. Hazen) 413 



The National Geographic Society 4 r 4 



Volcanic Eruptions on Martinique and St Vincent ; by ISRAEL C. RUSSELL 4 T 5 



The Copyright of a Map or Chart ; by WILLIAM ALEXANDER MlLLER 437 



The Eruptions of La Soufriere, St Vincent, in May, 1902 ; by Edmund Otis Hovey 444 



Geographic Notes 461 



Sverdrup's Work in the Arctics, 189S-1902 461 



