ol. X 



OCTOBER, 1899 



No. 10 



The 



_oftfie U. S. Department of ^jAg-ri 



vA / Associate Editor's 1 ' 



GreEXJy, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army ; AVJ McGEE, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau 

 icon Ethnology ; Hknky Gannett, Chief Geographer, LIS. Geological Survey ; 

 ' . II \kt Mkrriam, Biologisfo^rtJfefLLS. Department of Agriculture ; David j. Hile, 

 . I ssi slant Secretary of State ; ICharlesH.-AliSn , Assistant Secretary of 'the i Navy ; 

 Wm.i.is I.. Moqre, Chief Of the U.S. Weather Bureau) H. S. Pritchett,, >S«- 

 perintendentpfthe U. S Coast and Geodetic Survey ; Marcus Baker, U. S. 

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

 tsury Department ; Kuza Ruhamah Scidmore, Author 

 of'fava, the Garden of the East" ebb.; Cart, L-ouisE Gar- 

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



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



LIFE ON A YUKON TRAIL. 



With map and illustrations. 

 TIDES OF CHESAPEAKE BAY. 

 THE RELATION OF FORESTS AND FOREST FIRES. 



With illustrations. GIFFORD 



VARIATIONS IN LAKE LEVELS AND ATMOSPHERIC 



PRECIPITATION. 

 CALCULATIONS OF POPULATION IN JUNE, 1900 



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PEARY'S WORK AND PROSPECTS. 

 PEARY'S EXPLORATIONS IN 1898-1899. 



A. J. HENRY. 



403 



30. 



HENRY FARQUHAR. 



406 



H. L. BRIDGMAN. 



414 





415 



Definite Location of Bouvet Island, p. 413 ; The California and Nevada 

 mdary. p. 416,- Geographic Literature; Beiesford's, ,; The Break-up of 

 China, etc., p 418; Geographic Miscellanea, p. 421. 



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