CONTENTS 



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Three Weeks in Hubbard Bay, West Greenland ; by Robert Stein. 1 



The Samoan Cocoanut ; [A. W. Greely] 12 



The Modern Mississippi Problem ; by W J McGee 24 



Our Foreign Trade ; [Henry Gannett] 27 



The Presidency of the National Geographic Society 28 



Geographic Literature (Eleventh Annual Report of the Interstate 



Commerce Commission) 29 



Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 31 



Miscellanea 32 



Gardiner Greene Hubbard ; by Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D 33 



Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Memorial Meeting 39 



Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 70 



Geographic Literature (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and 

 Travel. North America, Vol. I, Canada and Newfoundland, 



Dawson) 71 



Geographic Notes 72 



Dwellings of the Saga-time in Iceland, Greenland, and Vineland ; by 



CORNELIA HORSFORD 73 



Completion of the La Boca Dock 84 



Two Hundred Miles up the Kuskokwim ; by Charles Hallock. ... 85 

 The Mt St Elias Expedition of Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy ; [ Eliza 



Ruhamah Scidmore] 93 



The Origin of the French Canadians 96 



The Height of Mt Rainier ; by Richard U. Goode 97 



Geographic Work by the Bureau of American Ethnology; [W J ■ 



McGee] 98 



A Relic of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition ; by Cyrus C. Babb. . . 100 



An Interesting Rumor Concerning Andree ; [John Hyde]. 102 



Geographic Names in West Greenland ; by Ralph S. Takr 103 



Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 104 



The Northwest Passes to the Yukon ; by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. 105 



Overland Routes to the Klondike ; by Hamlin Garland 113 



The Future of the Yukon Gold Fields ; by William H. Dall 117 



Notes on the Wild Fowl and Game Animals of Alaska; by E. W. 



Nelson "'. . ; 121 



Climatic Conditions of Alaska ; by A. W. Greely 132 



A Yukon Pioneer, Mike Lebarge ; by William H. Dall 137 



Alaska and its Mineral Resources; by Samuel Franklin Emmons. . 139 



The Civil Government of Alaska ; by Georc4e C. Perkins 172 



Some of the Conditions and Possibilities of Agriculture in Alaska; 



by Walter H. Evans 178 



The Metlakatla Mission in Danger ; by William H. Dall 187 



Agriculture in the Yukon Valley ; [Sheldon Jackson] 189 



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