CONTENTS 



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The Work of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ; by O. H. TiTTmann I 



Jade ; by S. E. EASTER 9 



Notes on Venezuela 17 



An Introduction to Physical Geography 21 



Dr Sven Hedin 26 



Peary on the North Pole 29 



Plan for Climbing Mount McKinley ; by Alfred H. Brooks and D. L. REaburn 30 



What the United States Government Does to Promote Agriculture 35 



Geographic Notes 39 



Is Germany the Cause of Denmark's Refusal to Sell Her West Indian Possessions?. . 39 



The Amount of Water Hidden Beneath the Surface 39 



Loubat Prizes 40 



Subduing the Nile 40 



Government Maps Recently Issued 41 



Testing the Currents of Lake Erie ; by E. L. MoSELEY 41 



Geographic Literature 42 



"The Uganda Protectorate" (Sir Harry Johnston) 42 



"Animals Before Man in America " (F. A. Lucas) 43 



"Europe " (Frank G. Carpenter) 43 



"A Ribbon of Iron " (Annette M. B. Meakin) 43 



' ' The Land of the Amazons ' ' (Baron de Santa Anna Nery) 43 



' ' Strange Lands Near Home " 43 



" Hurricanes " (William H. Alexander) : 44 



National Geographic Society 44 



Members of the National Geographic Society Appendix 



The Great Turk and His Lost Provinces ; by Wn,i,iAM E. Curtis 45 



The Work of the U. S. Hydrographic Office ; by W. H. H. SouTHERLAND 61 



Why Great Salt Lake Has Fallen ; by L- H. Murdoch 75 



Geographic Notes 77 



American Claims in the Antarctic ; by Edwin Swift Baixh 77 



Reclamation of Arid Lands in California 78 



Alaskan Boundary Dispute 79 



Recent Maps and Publications by the U. S. Geological Sunvey 79 



Timber Lines 80 



Reclamation of the High Plains 81 



Commander Robert E. Peary 81 



The Magnetic Work of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 81 



Ziegler North Polar Expedition 82 



Maps of Guatemala 82 



The Carnegie Institution Grants 82 



Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Labrador in 1900 82 



Decisions of the U. S. Board on Geographic Names : 82 



Geographic Literature 83 



" Crater Lake National Park " (J. S. Diller) 83 



" Commercial India in 1902 " (Bureau of Statistics) 83 



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