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An illustrated monthly, published by the 

 National Geographic Society, at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. All editorial communications 

 should be addressed to the Editor of the National 

 Geographic Magazine, Corcoran Building, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Business communications should 

 be addressed to the National Geographic Society, 

 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. 



25 CENTS A NUMBER; $2.50 A YEAR 



Editor: GILBERT H. GEOSVENOR 



Associate Editors 



GENERAL A. W. GREELT 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W J McGEE 



Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau oj 

 American Ethnology 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE 



Author of "fava, 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, 

 Department of Commerce and 

 Labor. 



DAVID T. DAT 



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. 



