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Into 38 pages the author crowds a valuable compilation of the known 

 facts concerning the Central American volcanoes, 64 of which are enumer- 

 ated. Only 18 pages are given to the volcanoes of Mexico, including 

 those wonderful giants of the New World, Popocatapetl, Ixtaccihuatl, 

 Xinantecatl, Tuxtla, Perote, etc., which lie almost at our very doors, and 

 are so accessible to all who are in search of knowledge. It seems some- 

 what disproportionate, after so briefly describing the sites of greatest 

 North American volcanic development, that 90 pages should be given to 

 the relatively trivial and mostly prehistoric volcanic phenomena of the 

 United States ; but when we consider that these are here more fully and 

 comprehensively presented than hitherto attempted, we feel grateful to 

 the author and overlook his brief consideration of the more typical North 

 American volcanic areas. It would have been well had Professor Rus- 

 sell included on his map and in his text some mention of the latter, which 

 stretch across the eastern gateway of the American Mediterranean, and 

 of the volcanic cinder cones, perhaps the most perfect in the United 

 States, occurring east of the Rio Grande in New Mexico ; and since he 

 included dead volcanoes, also the stocks of southwestern Texas, the only 

 ones of the kind, so far as we are aware, occurring within the Southern 

 Atlantic Coastal plain of the United States. 



As a whole, Professor Russell's work is thoroughly Commendable and 

 will not only prove a welcome addition to the library of those scien- 

 tifically inclined, but will accomplish much in the laudable direction of 

 placing within the hands of the layman a most readable treatise upon a 

 technical subject. 



R. T. H. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 SOCIETY, SESSION iSqS-'qq 



Regular Meeting, November 4, 2898. — Col. Henry F. Blount in the chair. 

 Lieut. D. H. Jarvis, U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, gave an account of 

 the Point Barrow Relief Expedition, winter of 1897-98, illustrating his 

 remarks by lantern slides. 



Regular Meeting, November 18, 1898.— Mr W J McGee in the chair. Prof. 

 Robert T. Hill delivered an address on Cuba and Its People, illustrating 

 his remarks by lantern slides showing the architecture, manufacturing 

 establishments, mode of travel, scenery, and types of inhabitants of the 

 island. 



Special Meeting, November 25, 1898.— Mr W J McGee in the chair. Chief 

 Engineer Harrie Webster, U. S. Navy, gave an illustrated lecture on 

 Korea. 



Regular Meeting, December 2, 1898.— Mr W J McGee in the chair. Prof. 

 W. Edwin Priest, Central High School, Washington, D. C, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on the Spanish in Europe and America. 



At the conclusion of the lecture an informal reception was given to 



