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An illustrated monthly, published by the 

 National Geographic Society, at Washing- 

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 should be addressed to the Editor of the National 

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Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVBNOR 



Associate Editors 



GENERAL A. W. GREELT 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W 3 McGEB 



Chief, Department of Anthropology 

 and Ethnology, Louisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition 



C. BART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



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. 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. 



