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yearly, has charge of the expenditure 

 each year of $450,000. Exploration and 

 all branches of geographical science have 

 been generously encouraged and assisted 

 by the institution during the half cen- 

 tury of its existence. 



The nation to whom he was so gener- 

 ous ought to insist in honoring the mem- 

 ory of their great benefactor by bringing 

 him to this country and giving him a 

 permanent resting place in the grounds 

 of the institution which he founded. 

 It would be base ingratitude on our part 

 to bury him again in Genoa, in another 

 cemetery, where, as time goes on and the 

 city grows, he will be again disturbed. 

 We should place him where he may rest 

 in peace, not for another seventy-five or 

 one hundred years, but for as long time 

 as the great nation lives in which he 

 showed such complete confidence and 

 respect. 



GAZETTEER OF THE PHILIPPINES 



A" PRONOUNCING Gazetteer and 

 Geographical Dictionary of the 

 Philippine Islands ' ' has been prepared 

 by the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the 

 War Department, and issued as Senate 

 Document No. 280, Fifty-seventh Con- 

 gress, first session. 



The gazetteer proper contains 264 

 pages, including the index, while the 

 geographical dictionary occupies 668 

 pages, exclusive of the maps, charts, 

 and illustrations. 



The work contains the most recent 

 and authoritative information, from 

 official and other sources, concerning 

 the islands, relative to their geography, 

 physical features, areas, communica- 

 tions, population, towns, resources, 

 wealth, products, industries, commerce, 

 finance, social economy, natural history, 

 military occupation, and civil govern- 

 ment, followed by an alphabetically ar- 

 ranged descriptive list of the islands, 

 provinces, districts, pueblos, cities, 

 towns, mountains, volcanoes, rivers, 



seas, straits, gulfs, bays, lakes, capes, 

 light-houses, and other mapped objects 

 and places to the number of 10,300. 



The work is so extremely valuable 

 that it is unfortunate the edition is so 

 limited that only a few copies can be 

 obtained by the public. Persons who 

 are unable to obtain a copy from a 

 Senator or Representative may purchase 

 one from the Superintendent of Public 

 Documents, Washington, D. C, for 

 $1-7.5- 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF CUBA 



IN a previous number of this Maga- 

 zine mention has been made of the 

 very complete telegraph system con- 

 structed in Cuba by the U. S. Signal 

 Corps since the Spanish-American war.* 

 The system was turned over to the 

 Cuban government when the United 

 States withdrew from the island. 



Another important work was com- 

 pleted recently when the railroad was 

 opened that binds together the ends of 

 the island. An English- American syn- 

 dicate built the line. H. I. Davies, 

 writing in The Scientific American, f has 

 this to say of its value : 



The railroad is of standard gage, and 

 its bridges are of steel and masonry ; 

 its equipment will be similar to that of 

 the best American railways, and it is 

 intended to run through sleeping cars 

 between Havana and Santiago de Cuba, 

 a distance of nearly 900 miles. 



Along the main line are to be found 

 great areas of land of the richest de- 

 scription, well watered and in most 

 cases well wooded, suitable for sugar 

 cane, tobacco, Indian corn, cotton, cof- 

 fee, cacao, and all of the fruits of the 

 tropical and sub-tropical regions. Other 

 districts are peculiarly adapted to cattle ; 



x See National Geographic Magazine, 

 p. 407, December, 1902 ; also report of the 

 Chief Signal Officer, Gen. A. W. Greely, for 

 1902, pp. 11-17. 



t January 24, 1903. 



