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at New Orleans in April was forecast by 

 the Weather Bureau four weeks in ad- 

 vance, which gave ample time to con- 

 struct additional levees in the city and 

 saved millions of dollars of property, 

 according to the estimate of the New 

 Orleans Cotton Exchange. The floods 

 of May and June in the middle Mis- 

 sissippi and lower Missouri valleys were 

 the most disastrous in our history. The 

 ruin and desolation were beyond descrip- 

 tion. At least 100 lives were lost and 

 $40,000,000 value of crops and indus- 

 tries swept away. Mr Frankenfield pub- 

 lishes a number of illustrations showing 

 the raging torrents and flooded cities ; 

 also maps of the drainage basin of the 

 Mississippi River and of the overflowed 

 areas and levee systems, and charts 

 showing the precipitation which caused 

 the floods. 



Geographen-Kalendar. J 904-1 905* By 



Hermann Haack. Pp. 290. 4^ x 6j^ 

 inches. With 16 maps. Gotha : 

 Justus Perthes. 1904. 

 This useful annual volume contains — 



( 1 ) A series of tables of areas, lengths 

 of degrees of the parallel and meridian, 

 etc. 



(2) Brief summaries of the geograph- 

 ical events of 1903, with maps. 



(3) Explorations in 1903. 



(4) Geographical literature in 1903. 



(5) Obituaries of geographers who 

 died in 1903. 



(6) Directory of geographical organi- 

 zations and bureaus of the world. 



The Alaskan Boundary. By George 

 Davidson. Royal octavo, pp. 235, 

 with maps. Published by the Alaska 

 Packers' Association, San Francisco, 

 1903. 



This is a complete history of the 

 boundary between Alaska and Canada 

 from the earliest days down to and in- 

 cluding the award of the Joint Commis- 

 sion. It contains copies of treaties, con- 

 ventions, and other state papers relating 

 to that boundary. It is probable that 



nothing could show more conclusively 

 the childish absurdity of the claims of 

 Canada than this cold, dispassionate 

 statement of facts. H. G. 



Notes on Panama is the subject of a 

 bulletin of 300 pages, compiled by Capt. 

 G. E. Hale and published by the War 

 Department. The report contains a 

 large map of the republic. 



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Orange Culture in California, Allen Suther- 

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Fisherfolk of Newfoundland, P. T. McGrath. 

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Physiographic Control ; Chattanooga Cam- 

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Immigration, Dr Allan McLaughlin. Do. 



Daughters of the Nile, Broughton Branden- 

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Marvelous Development Lower California. 

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Morocco and Anglo-French Agreement, 

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The Modern Steerage, Winthrop Packard. 

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National Bureau of Standards, Leroy T. 

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A Land where Banana is King, Francis 

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De l'Atlantique au Tchad par la Benoue 

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Volcanic Origin of Oil, Eugene Coste. Jour- 

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Government Irrigation Work, Guy E. Mitch- 

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West African Negroland, Lady Lugard. 

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Projected New Barge Canal, Thomas W. Sy- 

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First Impressions of Japan, George Kennan. 

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The Mountains, Steward Edward White. 

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From the Atlantic to Chad by Niger and 

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Turkestan and Corner of Thibet, Oscar T. 

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National Antarctic Expedition, Captain Col- 

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