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An illustrated monthly, published for the 

 National Geographic Society, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C M by McClure, Phillips & Co. 

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 Editor of the National Geographic Magazine, 

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Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



Associate Editors 



GENERAL A. W- GREELY 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W J McGEE 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau oj 

 American Ethnology 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief 0/ the Biological Survey, U. S. 

 Department of-Agriculture 



ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE 



Author of "-Java, the Garden of the 

 East," etc. 



MARCUS BAKER 



Carnegie Institution. 



WILLIS L. MOORE 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



O. H. TITTMANN 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey 



O. P. AUSTIN 



Chief of the~ Bureau of Statistics, 

 V. S. Treasury Department 



DAVID T. DAY 



Chief of the Division of Mineral 

 Resources, U.S. Geological Survey 



IDA M. TARBELL 



Author' of "Life of Napoleon," 

 "Life of Lincoln," etc. 



CARL LOUISE GARRISON 



Principal of Phelps School, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



