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Skull of the Imperial Mammoth 388 



Eighth International Geographic Congress 388 



Philippine Census 390 



Guatemalan Volcanic Disturbances 390 



Immigration into the United States 391 



U. S. Geological Survey Publications 391 



A North Polar Expedition 391 



The Ascent of Mt Sorata 391 



Directory of Officers and Councillors of Geographic Societies of the United States 392 



The Wrangell Mountains, Alaska ; by Walter C. Mendenhall 395 



Rubber Plantations in Mexico and Central America 409 



The Ziegler Polar Expedition 414 



The Mining Bureau of the Philippine Islands ; by Charles H. BurriTT 418 



Record Ascents in the Himalayas 420 



The New Cone of Mont Pel£e 422 



Alaskan Boundary Decision 423 



Richard Urquhart Goode 424 



National Geographic Society 425 



Unsuccessful Ascent of Mount McKinley and Mount Sorata 425 



U. S. Geological Survey 425 



Geographic Literature 425 



" Elements of Geology " (Joseph Le Conte) 425 



"Geography of Commerce " (Spencer Trotter) 426 



"The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 " (Edited by Emma Helen Blair and James A. 



Robertson ) 426 



"The Training of Wild Animals " (Frank C. Bostock) 427 



"Texas " (George P. Garrison) 427 



Program of Meetings of National Geographic Society, 1903-1904 428 



The Value of Arctic Exploration ; by Commander ROBERT E. Peary 429 



Surveying the Philippine Islands ; by GEORGE R- Putnam 437 



Muir Glacier ; by C. L. Andrews 441 



Note on Muir Glacier ; by G. K. Gilbert 444 



The Grape-Growing Industry of the United States 445 



Precious Stones 45 1 



Notes on Panama and Colombia. 458 



The U. S. Signal Corps 467 



Geographic Literature 468 



"The Island of Formosa " (James W. Davidson) • 468 



"The South American Republics " (Thos. C. Dawson) . 471 



" In Search of a Siberian Klondike " (Washington B. Vanderlip) 472 



Books Received 472 



Recent Publications of the U. S. Government 474 



National Geographic Society 474 



