7ol. X 



SEPTEMBER, 1899 



No. 9 



The 



Magazine 



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Editor: JOHN HYDE, 



Stnttstrrr'ait of the (J. S. Department of Agricllilure 



Associate Editors 



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Associate Ec 



\V. GREELY, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army • WJ McGEE, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau 

 if American Ethnology ; Hknry Gannett, Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey ; 

 C. Hart Merkiam, Biologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ; DavidJ. Hill, 

 Assistant Secretary of State ; Charles H. Allen, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; 

 Wn.us L. Moore, Chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau ; H. S. PriTchett, Su- 

 perintendent bf 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 ; Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Author 

 of'fava, the Garden of the East,' 1 etc.; Carl Louise Gar- 

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



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



CONTENTS 



O. P. AUSTIN. 

 N. H. DARTON. 



E. B. GARRIOTT. 



J. HOWARD GORE. 



THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN. 

 BAD LANDS OF SOUTH DAKOTA. 



With illustrations. 

 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 



With map. 

 THE RETURN OF WELLMAN. 



With illustrations. 

 THE INTERNATIONAL CLOUD WORK OF THE WEATHER BUREAU. 



FRANK H.J3IGELOW. 

 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 



SCIENCE. 

 The Rediscovery of Puerto Rico, p. 359; The Wellman Polar Expedition, p. 



Through Franz Josef Land, p. 362 ; The Isthmian Canal Problem, p. 



Geographic Liteiature, p. 364; Geographic Miscellanea, p. 371. 



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