GONTENTS V 



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Geographic Notes 161 



Explorations Among the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska 161 



Scottish Antarctic Expedition 162 



Survey of the Grand Canyon 162 



Geography in the University of Chicago 163 



The Ascent of Mt Everest 164 



Irrigation Plans in Five States 165 



Internal Commerce of the United States 166 



Reclamation in Wyoming and Colorado 166 



Department of Commerce and Labor 166 



The Possibilities of Southern Appalachian Streams 167 



Mont Pelee 167 



The Census of China 167 



The San Jose Scale 168 



The Outing of the Mazamas 168 



Bingham, Utah, Mining District 16S 



A Map of the Dairy Region of New York State 168 



The United States — Land and Waters ; by Cyrus C. Adams 171 



The Conquest of Bubonic Plague in the Philippines 185 



Improvements in the City of Manila 195 



American Development of the Philippines 197 



Benguet — The Garden of the Philippines ~ 203 



The British South Polar Expedition 210 



Geographic Notes t 213 



Bureau of Forestry 213 



The New Trans-Canada Railway 214 



Expedition to Turkestan 215 



Geological Survey 215 



Geological History of New York City 216 



The Kodak Developing Machine 216 



National Geographic Society 217 



Annual Excursion of the National Geographic Society 217 



Dr Jean Charcot 217 



The Gill Memorial Award 217 



Geographic Literature 217 



"Antarctica " (Edwin Swift Balch) 217 



Geologic Map of New York State 218 



The Tetrahedral Principle in Kite Structure ; by Alexander. Graham Bell 219 



Appendix of Seventy Illustrations of Kites and Structures used by Alexander Graham Bell . 231 



Notes on the Preceding Illustrations ; by Alexander Graham BELL 248 



Mr Ziegler and the National Geographic Society 251 



Geographic Notes 254 



National Geographic Society 254 



Alaskan Surveys, 1903 255 



Gold Discoveries in Alaska 257 



Decisions of the U. S. Board on Geographic Names 258 



Geographic Literature 259 



"American Diplomacy in the Orient " (John W. Foster) 259 



Mapping of the Brazilian Territory 262 



The United States ; Its Soils and Their Products ; by H. W. Wiley 263 



