

. X DECEMBER, 1899 No. 12 



The 



National Geographic 



Magazine 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 



Statist icia?i of the U. S. Department of Agriculture . 



Associate Editors 



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

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

 WiLEiS L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau ) H. S. Pritchett, {Su- 

 perintendent of Ike 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 ; EeizaRuhamah Scidmore, Author 

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

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



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



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



MAP OP THE SEAT OF WAR IN AFRICA: SUPPLEMENT. 



THE WELLMAN POLAR EXPEDITION. WALTER WELLMAN. 481 



With maps and illustrations. 



THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION. HENRY GANNETT. 507 



With maps. 



THE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF 



THE SECOND WELLMAN EXPEDITION. EVELYN B. BALDWIN. 512 



PORTO RICO OR PUERTO RICO? ROBERT T. HILL. 516 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE AND 



THE U. S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 517 



e Names in Canada, p. 519; The Antarctic Climate, p. 520; Geographic 

 Literature, p. 522 ; Geographic Miscellanea, p. 524. 



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