JUNE, 1899 



No: 6 



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AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor 



JOHN HYDE, 



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Statisiicim of I he I'. S. Defiarinient\f~~Agriculiure 



Associate Editors 



.:)• i.v, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army ; WJ McGEE, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau 

 riaw Ethnology .; Hhnry Gannett, Ch ief Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey ; 

 C. Hart Merriam, Biologist of UTe U.S. Department of Agriculture ; David J. Hill, 

 •slant Secretary of Stale ; Charles H. Allen, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; 

 Wilms L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau ; H. S. PriTCHETT, Su- 

 perintendent of the U. S Coast and Geodetic Survey ; Marcus Baker, U. S. 

 gical Survey ; O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau, of Statistics, 

 U.S. Treasury Department; Eliza Ruhamah ScidmorE; Author 

 of "Java, the Garden of the East," etc.; Carl Louise Gar- 

 rison, Principal of Phelps School, Washington, D. C. 



Assistant Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, Washington, DC. 



CONTENTS / 



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THEATER OF MILITARY OPERATIONS IN LUZON: Map. 



NATIONAL GROWTH AND NATIONAL CHARACTER. W J McGEE. 185 



JOBOS HARBOR. O. H. TITTMANN. 206 



SAMOA: NAVIGATORS ISLANDS. Commander H. WEBSTER, U. S. N. 207 



COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF SAMOA. O. P. AUSTIN. 218 



B NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. JOHN HYDE. 220 



GEOGRAPHY FOR TEACHERS. C. L. GARRISON. 223 



v : HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION. 225 



>sed Meteorological Station in Iceland, p. 228; The Belgian Antarctic Expedi- 



i p 229; Geographic Literature, p. 231; Miscellanea, p. 232. 



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