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An illustrated monthly, published for the 

 National Geographic Society, of Washing- 

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

 All communications should be addressed to the 

 Managing Editor of the National Geographic 

 Magazine, Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. 

 Business communications may also be addressed to 

 McClure, Phillips & Co., at 141 East 25th St., 

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Editor-in-Chief: HENRY GANNETT 



Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey 



Managing Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



Associate Editors 



GENERAL A. W. GREELY 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W J McGEE 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Biological Survey , U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



DAVID J. HILL 



Assistant Secretary of State 



ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE 



Author of "fava, the Garden of the 

 East," etc. 



MARCUS BAKER 



U. S. Geological Survey 



WILLIS L. MOORE 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



O. H. TITTMANN 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey 



O. P. AUSTIN 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 

 U. S. Treasury Department 



DAVID T. DAY 



Chief of the Division of Mineral 

 Resources, U. S. Geological Survey 



IDA M. TARBELL 



Author of "Life of Napoleon," 

 "Life of Lincoln" etc. 



CARL LOUISE GARRISON 



Principal of Phelps School, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



