vi The National Geographic Magazine 



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Big Things of the West ; by Charles F. Holder 279 



Paul du Chaillu .' . 282 



The Weather Bureau and the Recent Floods ; by H. C. FrankENFIELD 285 



A Suggested Field for Exploration . . . . 290 



International Geographic Congress 292 



Geographic Notes 292 



Geological Exploration in Eastern Asia 292 



The Norwegian Expedition to the Magnetic North Pole by Roald Amundsen 293 



The Tetrahedral Kite 294 



Porto Rico and the United States 294 



Summer School of Geology and Geography at Cornell University 295 



The Swedish South Polar Expedition 296 



The Geographical Society of Lisbon 296 



German South Polar Expedition 296 



The National Geographic Society's Flag 297 



Sven Hedin's Publications 297 



The Arctic Club 297 



Robert T. Hill. 297 



The Reproductive Period in the Lobster 297 



The Alaskan Boundary Dispute 297 



The Ascent of Mount McKinley 297 



Geographic Literature 298 



"A Teacher's Manual of Geography " (Charles McMurry) 29S 



"The Alaska Frontier" (Thomas Willing Balch) 29S 



" Unknown Mexico " (Carl Lumholtz) 29S 



"Complete Geography " (Ralph S. Tarr and Frank M. McMurry) 299 



"Through the Heart of Patagonia " (H. Hesketh Pritchard) 300 



U. S. Geological Survey Publications on Alaska 300 



The United States — Her Industries ; by O. P. Austin , 301 



The Introduction of the Mango 320 



Rainfall and the Level of Lake Erie ; by E. L. MoSELEY 327 



Geographic Notes 328 



The Railroads and Forestry 328 



The Peary Arctic Club Map 330 



The United States — Her Mineral Resources ; by C. Kirchhoff 331 



Expedition into Texas of Fernando del Bosque ; by BETTY B. Brewster 339 



The Hardy Catalpa 348 



Explorations in Tibet 353 



Gardening in Northern Alaska ; by MiddlETON Smith 355 



» Excavations at Abydos 358 



Geographic Notes 359 



Foreign Commerce of the United States in 1903 '. 359 



White Population of the Chief British Colonies '. 360 



The Building of Dalny 360 



The Geographical Distribution of Insanity in the United States ; by William A. White. 361 



Peary and the North Pole 379 



The Influence of Forestry upon the Lumber Industry of the United States ; by OVERTON 



W. Price 3S1 



Geographic Notes 3§6 



Guillemot Eggs 386 



