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VoL XV OCTOBER, J904 No. JO 



CONTENTS 



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Address by Commander Robert E. Peary on the Assembling; of the 



Eighth International Geographic Congress in Washington . 387 

 Some Early Geographers of the United States, By Rear Admiral 



C. M. Chester, U.S.N. 392 



Recent Progress in the Execution of a Map of the World on the 



Uniform Scale of I : J, 000,000. By Dr Albrecht Penck . . 405 

 Methods of Exploration in Africa. By Major A. St. H. Gibbons 408 

 The Special Telegraphic Time Signal from the Naval Observa- 

 tory in Honor of the Eighth International Geographic 



Congress 4JJ 



Resolutions Adopted by the Eighth International Geographic 



Congress 4J5 



The Eighth International Geographic Congress 419 



Geographic Notes -427 



Abstracts of Geographic Congress Papers 430 



Geographic Literature 432 



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