CONTENTS 



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The Stikine River in 1898 ; Eliza Ruiiamah Scidmore 1 



The U. S. Board on Geographic Names and its Foreign Critics 16 



The West Indian Hurricane of September 10, 11, 1898; Prof. E. B. 



Garriott. 17 



Colonial Systems of the World ; O. P. Austin 21 



Lloyd's Journey Across the Great Pygmy Forest 26 



Growth of Maritime Commerce 30 



National Geographic Society 31 



Senor Don Matias Romero 32 



The Economic Condition of the Philippines; Max L. Tornow 33 



Manila and the Philippines; Major A. Falkner von Sonnenburg.. . 65 

 The Original Territory of the United States; Hon. David J. Hill. . 73 



Porto Rico ; Robert T. Hill. 93 



Sources of the Saskatchewan ; Walter D. Wilcox 114 



Exploration in the Canadian Rockies 135 



How Long a Whale May Carry a Harpoon ; William H. Dall. . . . . . 136 



Ship-building in the United Kingdom in 1898 138 



Geographic Literature 139 



Proceedings of the National Geographic Society 143 



Major Jed Hotchkiss 144 



The Redwood Forest of the Pacific Coast ; Henry Gannett 145 



Is Climatic Aridity Impending on the Pacific Slope ? The Testimony 



of the Forest ; J. B. Leiberg 160 



Professor O. C. Marsh ; W J McGee 182 



The Area of. the Philippines 182 



The Recent Ascent of Itambe ; J. C. Branner 183 



Miscellanea ' 184 



National Growth and National Character ; YV J McGee 186 



Jobos Harbor ; 0. H. Tittmann . . ., , 206 



Samoa : Navigators Islands ; Commander H. Webstek 207 



The Commercial Importance of Samoa ; O. P. Austin 218 



Geography for Teachers ; C. L. Garrison 223 



The Harriman Alaska Expedition in Cooperation with the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences 225 



The Caroline Islands 227 



Proposed Meteorological Station in Iceland 228 



The Belgian Antarctic Expedition 229 



( ieographic Literature 231 



Miscellanea 232 



Physiography of the Nicaragua Canal Route; C. Wiliard Hayes.. 233 



Nicaragua and the Isthmian Routes ; A. P. Davis 247 



The Wellman Polar Expedition ; J. Howard Gore 267 



The Coast and (ieodetic Survey: Its Present Work ; E. D. Preston.. 268 



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