AUGUST, 1899 



No. 



The 



Magazine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 



Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Associate Editors 



W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army ; WJ McGEE, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau 

 of American Ethnology ; Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer, U.S. Geological, Survey ; 

 C. Hart Merriam, Biologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ; David J. Hiee, 

 Assistant Secretary of Stale ; Charees H. Aeeen, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; 

 Wieeis 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. 

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

 U.S. Treasury Department ; Euza Ruhamah Scidmore, Author 

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

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



Assistant Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, Washington, D. C. 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



SOUTH POLAR REGIONS— Map. 



SHISHALDIN AS A FIELD FOR EXPLORATION. 



With illustrations. JOSEPH STANLEY-BROWN. 281 



MAGNETIC WORK OF THE COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. 



L. A. BAUER. 288 

 DEEP-SEA EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF STEAMER "ALBATROSS." 



With illustrations. HUGH M. SMITH. 291 



THE PROPOSED INTEROCEANIC CANAL IN ITS COMMERCIAL 



ASPECTS. JOSEPH NIMMO, Jr., LL.D. 297 



THE INTEROCEANIC CANAL. EMORY R. JOHNSON. 311 



PLANS FOR REACHING THE SOUTH POLE. 



GILBERT H. GROSVENOR. 316 

 Geogiaphic Literature: Baedeker's "The United States," p. 320; Ripley's "The Raffes 



of Europe," p. 320 ; Sven Hedin's "Through Asia," p. 322 ; Miscellanea, p. 32*6 ; 



Proceedings of the National Geographic Society, p. 327. jl 



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