Geographic Notes 



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four sheets together an excellent map 

 of the Philadelphia region may be 

 obtained. 



Dr. George Davidson has published an 

 exhaustive treatise, with map, on " The 

 Tracks and Landfalls of Bering and 

 Chirikof on the Northwest Coast of 

 America," from the point of their sep- 

 aration; in latitude 49 ° 10', longitude 

 176 40' west, to their return to the 

 same meridian — June-October, 1741. 



Geographic Work in the Philippines. — 



Plans are being matured for extensive 

 explorations in Mindanao, Mindoro, and 

 Luzon. Of the two first-named islands 

 practically nothing is known except the 

 coastline. The work will be under the 

 personal charge of Dr. David P. Barrows, 

 chief of the Bureau of Non-Christian 

 Tribes, P. I. Dr. Barrows is now in 

 the United States, but on his return to 

 Manila early in April will immediately 

 enter the field. Mindoro is about twice 

 the size of the state of Delaware, Min- 

 danao is larger than the state of In- 

 diana, and Luzon nearly as large as, the 

 state of New York. 



Stretching from north to south across 

 Luzon on either coast are parallel 

 mountain ranges. The low country 

 between the ranges is comparatively 

 well known, but the mountainous re- 

 gion is unexplored, and little is known 

 of the unchristianized tribes living there. 

 The special object of the Bureau of 

 Non- Christian Tribes is to stud}' the 

 natives of the islands who are not Chris- 

 tians and have not been under Christian 

 influence. 



The Wealth of Nations. — The London 

 Daily Mail year book for 1902 estimates 

 the wealth of the United States as nearly 

 equal to the combined riches of France 

 and Germany, as three times that of 

 Russia, and about twenty-two billion 

 dollars more than the wealth of Great 

 Britain. In round numbers the wealth 



of the United States is figured at 

 650,000,000; of Great Britain, 

 030,000,000; France, $48,450,000,000; 

 Germany, $40,260,000,000, and Russia^ 

 $32,125,000,000. The percent of debt 

 to wealth of these nations is estimated 

 for the United States, 1.4 per cent; 

 United Kingdom, 6 per cent; Germany, 

 8.1 per cent; Russia, 11.1 per cent; 

 France, 12.8 per cent. 



'he original map made by George 

 Washington in 1775 of the lands on the 

 Great Kanawha River, West Virginia, 

 granted to him by the British Govern- 

 ment in '1763 for his services in the 

 Braddock Expedition, is now in the pos- 

 session of the Library of Congress. Mr. 

 P. Lee Phillips, Chief of the Division of 

 Maps and Charts, who recently obtained 

 the map for the Library, has placed it on 

 exhibition, where it can be seen by the 

 many thousands daily visiting the Li- 

 brary. The map is about two by five 

 feet, and is entirely in the handwriting 

 of Washington. The margin is filled 

 with notes, also in Washington's hand- 

 writing, describing the boundary marks 

 ■set by Washington and different features 

 of the tract. 



"The Journal of School Geography ,"" 



so successfully directed for many years 

 by Richard E. Dodge, Professor of Ge- 

 ography in Columbia University, and 

 "The American Bureau of Geography, ' ' 

 of which Edward M. Lehnerts, Pro- 

 fessor of Geography in the State Nor- 

 mal School of Minnesota, was the able 

 editor, have joined forces, and will here- 

 after be issued as one publication. The 

 title of the new magazine is ' ' The Jour- 

 nal of Geography." It is planned " to 

 meet the needs of all the teachers and 

 students in geography." The journal, 

 which will be issued ten times a year, 

 is edited jointly by Professors Dodge 

 and Lehnerts and J. Paul Goode, Pro- 

 fessor of Geography in the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



