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Map of Alaska, showing known Gold-bearing Rocks, with Descriptive Text con- 

 taining Sketches of the Geography, Geology, Gold Deposits and Routes to the 

 Gold Fields. TJ. S. Geological Survey. Pp. 44. Washington. 1898. 



.1 Report to Congress on Agriculture in Alaska, including Reports by Walter 

 H. Evans, Benton Killin, ami Sheldon Jackson. U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations. Bulletin No. 48. 

 Pp. iv + 36, with map and illustrations. Washington. 1898. 



Rand, McNally & Co.'s New 18 X %4 Map of Alaska, showing also British 

 Columbia, with portions of Northwest Territories, etc. Chicago and 

 New York : Rand, McNally & Company. 1897. 



Rand, McNally tfc Co.'s Official Map of Alaska, including The Klondike Dis- 

 trict and Adjacent Gold Fields, showing various routes to the mines. 

 24 X 36, cloth. Chicago and New York : Rand, McNally & Co. 1897. 



Golden Alaska. An Up-to- Date Guide. Klondike District. Yukon Valley. 

 By Ernest Ingersoll. Pp. v + 160, with maps and illustrations. Chi- 

 cago and New York : Rand, McNally & Company. 1897. 



Ihe Golden North, By C. R. Tuttle. Pp. x 4- 307, with maps. Chicago 

 and New York : Rand, McNally & Company. 1897. 



Nothing could be more timely or, for their purpose, more valuable than 

 the reports on Alaska recently published by the U. S. Geological Survey 

 and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the one on the mineral re- 

 sources of the Territory and the other on its agricultural capabilities. 

 While there is still much awaiting demonstration in both these fields of 

 investigation, enough is definitely known to prove of the utmost utility 

 to those who are seeking their fortune in the new Eldorado. The prin- 

 cipal authors of both reports have rendered the readers of The National 

 Geographic Magazine the service of summarizing the results of their in- 

 vestigations for this number, but the reports themselves should be care- 

 fully studied by all prospective visitors to the region described. 



The reputation of the well-known firm of Rand, McNally & Co. is fully 

 maintained in their recent publications on Alaska and the Klondike. 

 Their " 18 by 24 map" shows in considerable detail the whole of Alaska 

 and the western portion of the Dominion of Canada, and notwithstand- 

 ing the small scale on which it is drawn, it is clear and distinct in every 

 particular. The "official map," while twice the size of the foregoing, 

 embraces a much smaller area, with the result that the different geo- 

 graphical features of the attractive region it represents stand out with a 

 distinctness that leaves nothing to be desired. Mr Ernest IngersolPs 

 " Golden Alaska" contains much useful information for intending set- 

 tlers, but is hardly up to the author's usual standard in its literary style. 

 Mr Tuttle' s "The Golden North" is a somewhat more ambitious and 

 more serious work and not so obviously designed to meet a merely tem- 

 porary want. While the two publications necessarily cover to some ex- 

 tent the same ground, each has its place, and the two books are really 

 complementary to each other. 



J. H. 



