CONTENTS 



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 The Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, with map (12 x 12 inches); by John W. Foster, LL. D., 



formerly Secretary of State 1 



The Decision of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal 12 



The Reclamation of the West ; by F. H. NEWEI.L, Chief Engineer of the Reclamation 



Service . 15 



Snow Crystals . , 30 



The U. S. Weather Bureau ; by Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture 37 



Marcus Baker ; by Dr Wm. H. Dali, 40 



Controlling Sand Dunes in the United States ; by A. S. Hitchcock 43 



Timberlines ; by Professor Israee C. RUSSEU* 47 



Statistical Atlas of the United States 50 



Geographic Literature 52 



"Around the Caribbean and Across Panama " (Francis C. Nicholas) . . . . ." 52 



' ' Elementary Geography ' ' ( Charles F. King) 53 



" The Heart of Japan " (H. L. Brownell) 55 



"The Moon " (Wm. H. Pickering) 55 



" New Conceptions of Science " (Carl Snyder) 55 



"Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies" (H. E. N. Stutfield and 



J. Norman Collie, F. R. S.) 55 



"A Handbook of Modern Japan " (Ernest W. Clement) 55 



" The Forest " (Steward Edward White) 55 



" Handbook of Commercial Geography " (Geo. G. Chisholm) 55 



" Present Day Egypt " (Frederic Courtland Penfield) 55 



' ' The Russian Advance " (Albert J. Beveridge) 55 



" Indians of the Painted Desert Region " (George Wharton James) 56 



" Indians of the Southwest " (George A. Dorsey, Ph. D.) 56 



" Round Kangchenjunga " (Douglas W. Freshfield) 56 



" Irrigation in India " (H. M. Wilson) 56 



National Geographic Society . . 56 



The Republic of Panama ; by Hon. Wm. H. Burr, of Isthmian Canal Commission. ... 57 



Eighth International Geographic Congress, Washington, 1904 74 



The Philippine Weather Service 77 



Geographic Notes 79 



Some Facts about Korea 79 



The Beet Sugar Industry . 80 



In Tribute to Marcus Baker 83 



Photograph of Flamingo Nests 83 



Statement from Department of Commerce and Labor 83 



Geographic Literature 83 



" Central Asia " (Sven Hedin) S3 



"Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies" (H. E. M. Stutfield and J. 



Norman Collie ) 84 



" Geographic Influences in American History " (A. P. Brigham) 87 



" Indians of the Painted Desert Region " (George Wharton James) 87 



' ' Commercial Geography " ( J. W. Redway) . ....... , . 87 



" Present Day Egypt " (F. C. Penfield) 87 



" Meyers Historisch Geographischer Kalender " 89 



" Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1902 " , 89 



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