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The National Geographic Magazine 



and laboratory exercises with good lec- 

 tures. The school proved a great suc- 

 cess. Teachers came from seventeen 

 different states, including superintend- 

 ents, principals, normal-school teachers, 

 teachers in the high schools and in every 

 grade where geography is taught. 



The University has wisely decided to 

 continue the school during the summer 

 of 1904. This year, as last, it will be 

 conducted by Prof. Ralph S. Tarr, with 

 an able corps of assistants — Professors 

 A. P. Brigham, Charles A. McMurry, 

 Philip Emerson, Frank Carney, Ray 

 Hughes Whitbeck, George D. Hub- 

 bard, F. V. Emerson, and B. S. Butler. 



A more instructive location from a 

 geographical point of view could not be 

 chosen than the site of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. Situated on a hillside over- 

 looking a large lake in one direction 

 and broad, beautifully sloping valleys 

 in the other, and bounded by narrow 

 gorges with many falls, cascades, and 

 rapids, the campus is the center of a 

 great variety of beautiful, interesting, 

 and instructive geographic features. 



The connection of the school with a 

 large university gives it many advan- 

 tages. The university library is fully 

 supplied with books and magazines on 

 geologic and geographic subjects, and 

 these are accessible to the students in the 

 school. The laboratories are equipped 

 with many models, maps, photographs 

 and specimens illustrating phases of 

 geology, physiography, and geography. 

 There is, furthermore, a collection of 

 fully 5,000 lantern slides for use in the 

 lecture courses, so that it is possible to 

 bring into the class-room clear illustra- 

 tions of almost every topic that needs 

 illustration. 



GIRDLING THE GLOBE 



REAR ADMIRAL C. M. CHES- 

 TER sends this Magazine the fol- 

 lowing note written by Prof. Otto Klotz, 

 of Ottawa, at Adelaide, Australia, con- 



cerning the latter' s work in girdling the 

 globe astronomically : 



"The Dominion of Canada has undertaken, 

 on her own initiative, and entirely at her own 

 cost, the work of girdling the globe astronom- 

 ically. This has been made possible by the 

 completion of the Pacific cable. Canada has 

 carried the work from Greenwich, which is the 

 first meridian of the British world, across the 

 Atlantic, across Canada to Vancouver, where it 

 connects with the Pacific cable From there 

 it goes by Fanning Island to Fiji, to Norfolk 

 Island, and then, at Southport, near Brisbane, 

 to Australia. The work was thence continued 

 to Sydney, where it joined the longitude carried 

 from Greenwich eastward via Suez, Madras, 

 and Singapore to Port Darwin, and thence to 

 Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. 



" I also visited New Zealand, and tied that 

 prosperous colony to the girdle, the cable con- 

 nection being from Norfolk Island to Doubtless 

 Bay, and thence by land lines to the observa- 

 tory at Wellington. 



" The result of the work in which I am now 

 engaged is of special value to the whole of the 

 Pacific, for the determination of the position of 

 the islands. Furthermore, it will be of consid- 

 erable scientific interest, and besides, being the 

 ' all red ' line, is a further link in binding the 

 various parts of the British Empire together. 

 Canada, I may say, takes special pride in un- 

 dertaking the work, considered in its imperial 

 aspect. She has not invited the assistance of 

 other parts of the Empire, although the result 

 of the work will be of even greater value, as to 

 the Pacific islands, for instance, than to her- 

 self. She is carrying it out by herself, with the 

 object of contributing to the general good" 



For the map of Alaska that is published 

 as a Supplement to this number the 

 National Geographic Magazine is 

 indebted to the U. S. Geological Survey 

 and in particular to Alfred H. Brooks, 

 Chief of the Alaskan Division, and S. J. 

 Kiibel, Chief of the Engraving and 

 Printing Division. An interesting feat- 

 ure of the map is the small key in the 

 upper right-hand corner, which shows 

 what sections of the territory have been 

 surveyed. 



A Favorable Report 011 the feasibility 

 of a canal connecting the waters of the 

 Baltic and Black seas has been sub- 

 mitted to the Czar by W. von Ruckte- 

 schell, the engineer specially appointed 



