Geographic Literature 



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Dr David T. Day, Chief of the Division 

 of Mineral Resources of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Managers of the 

 National Geographic Society to fill the 

 unexpired term of Mr Henry Gannett. 

 As Mr Gannett will remain in the Philip- 

 pines for a year or more, engaged in the 

 census of the islands, he has resigned 

 temporarily from the Board. Dr Day 

 was a member of the Board 1896-1899. 



In November, 1902, the remains of 

 Christopher Columbus were buried with 

 great pomp for the fifth time. Their 

 last and, it is hoped, permanent resting 

 place is a special mausoleum in the grand 

 Cathedral of Seville. From Valladolid 

 to Seville, from Seville to Hispaniola, 

 from Hispaniola to Habana, and from 

 Habana to Seville again, is the strange 

 story of the journeying of Columbus' 

 remains. 



GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



Father Marquette. By Reuben G. 



Thwaites. Illustrated. Pp. 244. 



New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1902. 



$1.00 net. 



The work of Father Marquette as 

 an explorer of the Mississippi, as a 

 preacher, and a friend of the Indians 

 won for him a prominent and lasting 

 place in the hearts and imagination of 

 the American people. His name stands 

 for what has been best and noblest in 

 the history of white men's dealings with 

 the Indian. This biography by Dr 

 Thwaites is especially welcome, inas- 

 much as, except for brief biographies 

 of Father Marquette by Sparks and 

 Shea, no other has been published. 

 The volume consists mainly of an ac- 

 count of the long canoe voyage (1673) 

 of Marquette and Joliet from Lake 

 Michigan to Portage on the Wisconsin 

 River, thence down the Wisconsin to 

 the Mississippi, which they descended 

 to the mouth of the Arkansas, and then 

 back again up the Mississippi to the 

 mouth of the Illinois, and up the latter 

 and the Chicago to the west shore of 

 Lake Michigan, a journey of over 2,500 

 miles. By this V03 age the explorers 

 proved that the great river of the west 

 flowed to the Gulf of Mexico and not 

 to the Pacific or to the southeastward 

 through Virginia. Marquette was so 



weakened by the fearful hardship of 

 the four months' canoeing that he died 

 in 1675, at the early age of 38 and after 

 only nine years of service in America. 

 Joliet lost his narrative and maps of the 

 exploration, but the journal and maps 

 of Marquette were preserved long 

 enough for a copy to be made of them, 

 and this is the only record we have of 

 one of the most remarkable explora- 

 tions in American history. 



The Land of Nome. Bv Louis McKee. 



Pp. 260. New York : The Grafton 



Press. 1902. 



Mr. McKee gives a vivid picture of 

 the blindness of the stampede to Nome 

 of 1 8,000 fortune-hunters in the summer 

 of 1900. The past neglect, the present 

 needs, and the untold resources of our 

 wonderful Alaska are described. To 

 quote from the author : 



"Uncle Sam's record in Alaska has 

 not been one to be proud of. A taxed, 

 unrepresented people, who, under the 

 greatest adversities, have shown to the 

 world the enormous and varied resources 

 of a supposedly barren land, have for 

 years had to bear the additional burden 

 of incompetent and unscrupulous offi- 

 cials who have been foisted upon the 

 country. The rush to Cape Nome has 

 attracted attention to only a compara- 



