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THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor : GILBERT H. GROSVENOK 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



MAJOR GENERAL A. W. GREELY 



U. S. Army 

 W J McGEE 



Chief Department of Anthropology and Eth- 

 nology, Louisiana Purchase Exposition 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Bureau of the Riological Survey, 

 TJ. S. Department of Agriculture 



WILLIS L. MOORE 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture 



O H. TITTMANN 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey 



O. P. AUSTIN 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Department 

 of Commerce and Labor 



DAVID G. FAIRCHILD 



Agricultural Explorer of the Department of 

 Agriculture 



ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 

 Washington, D. C. 



DAVID T. DAY 



Chief of the Division of Mineral Resources, 

 U. S. Geological Survey 



ANGELO HEILPRIN 



Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 



R. D. SALISBURY 



University of Chicago 



G. K. GILBERT 



U. S. Geological Survey 



ALEXANDER McADIE 



Professor of Meteorology, U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, San Francisco 



ALMON GUNNISON 



President St Lawrence University 



VOL. XVII— YEAR 1906 



Published by the National Geographic Society 



Hubbard Memorial Hall 



Washington, D. C. 



NOV &1981 

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