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The National Geographic Magazine 



Indian Baskets* The main feature of 

 the report of the National Museum for 

 1902 is a remarkable monograph on Ab- 

 original American Basketry by Otis T. 

 Mason. The paper is illustrated by 250 

 full-page plates, many of them colored, 

 and by 212 figures in the text. The 

 colored plates are particularly beautiful 

 and well printed. " Basketry and pot- 

 ter}' are the sibylline leaves on which 

 are written the thoughts and lore of 

 our Indians." The report is particu- 

 larly important, as it is the first expert 

 and comprehensive description of Indian 

 basketry published. 



The Mining Year Book of the U. S. 



Geological Survey is nearly ready for 

 distribution. It is entitled " Contribu- 

 tions to Economic Geology, 1903," and 

 was prepared under the supervision of 

 Messrs C. W. Hayes and S. F. Emmons. 

 The volume contains 50 short articles 

 by thirty of the Survey's best-known 

 geologists on the year's developments in 

 various mining interests of. the United 

 States and Alaska — gold, silver, copper, 

 coal, tin, oil, etc. 



Commercial Korea in 1904 is the title of 

 a monograph issued by the Department 

 of Commerce and Labor through its 

 Bureau of Statistics. It discusses com- 

 mercial and other conditions in Korea, 

 showing area, population, transporta- 

 tion facilities, railways, telegraphs, 

 postal -service, and foreign commerce. 



Commercial China in 1904, published by 

 the Bureau of Statistics, contains a vast 

 amount of useful information about the 

 Chinese Empire — treaties, railways and 

 waterways, population , resources, recent 

 development, etc. 



A memorial to Professor Joseph Le 

 Conte has been constructed by the Sierra 

 Club of San Francisco in the Yosemite 

 Valley at a cost of $8,000. It is a build- 

 ing of granite, erected under the walls 

 of Glacier Point. The building is di- 



vided into three parts, the main room 

 measuring 28 by 38 feet. Above the 

 main room a Gothic roof rises to the 

 height of 35 feet. Inside are a large 

 reading table, wall seats, and a large 

 bookcase in which are kept books and 

 papers pertaining to travel and research 

 and maps and papers furnished by the 

 Sierra Club. 



Map of Alaska. The National Geo- 

 graphic Magazine in its May number 

 will publish a map of Alaska, 42x36 

 inches. The map was prepared by the 

 U. S. Geological Survey and shows the 

 latest surveys and explorations. It is 

 in three colors and should prove ex- 

 tremely useful to all who are interested 

 in the rapid development of the territory. 

 The map "will be supplemented by an 

 article by Mr Alfred H. Brooks, Chief 

 of the Alaskan Division of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey. 



TOPOGRAPHIC SHEETS RECENTLY 

 PUBLISHED BY THE U. S. GEO- 

 LOGICAL SURVEY 



California : The Tejon and Yosemite quad- 

 rangles. 



Indiana : New Harmony and Haubstadt 

 quadrangles 



Kansas : Iola quadrangle. 



Maine : The Blue Hill quadrangle. 



Maryland : Baltimore and vicinity. 



Montana : The Saypo, Browning, and Coop- 

 ers Lake quadrangles. 



North Carolina : The Newberne and Tarboro 

 quadrangles. 



Ohio : Maps of fourteen quadrangles — the 

 Bowling Green, Elmore, Fremont, Vermilion, 

 Euclid, Cleveland, Wooster, Dublin, Delaware, 

 Canton, Massillon, Fostoria, and Oberlin. 



Texas : The Polvo and Terlingua quadran- 

 gles 



Utah : Hayden Peak quadrangle. 



The maps, as a rule, are named after the 

 most important town in the district covered. 

 The maps may be purchased of the Survey for 

 5 cents each 



"Geographic Tables and Formulas" (Bull 

 No. 214), recently published by the Geological 

 Survey, includes all tables and formulas used 

 by topographers in the field and office. The 

 tables were compiled byS. S. Gannett and the 

 material revised by E. M. Douglas and H. L. 

 Baldwin. 



