CONTENTS 



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Geographical Exploration : Its Moral and Material Results ; by General A. W. 



GrEEly, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A i 



The Florida Keys ; by John Gifford 5 



Prosperous Idaho : An interview with Governor Gooding, of Idaho ' 16 



The Annual Dinner of the National Geographic Society 22 



A New Department 37 



A Modern Viking 38 



Drifting across the Pole 40 



The Blue Crab 46 



Geographic Literature 47 



"The Effects of Tropical Light on White Men" (Maj. Charles E. Woodruff, Sur- 

 geon U. S. A.) 47 



"'Extinct Animals" (E. Ray Lancaster) 48 



"In the Land of the Strenuous Life" (Abbe Felix Klein) 48 



"The Land oi the Rising Sun" (Gregoire De Wollant) , 49 



"A Commercial Traveler in South America" (Frank Wiborg) 50 



"With Flashlight and Camera" 50 



"The Indian Dispossessed" (Seth K. Humphrey) 50 



Obituary (Von Richtofen) 51 



Correspondence 51 



National Geographic Society 54 



The Panama Canal ; by Hon. Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal 



Commission 55 



Transportation Methods in Alaska ; by Captain George S. Gibbs 69 



Winning the West ; by C. J. Blanchard 82 



Arizona and New Mexico 101 



Big Oklahoma 103 



The Isle of Pines 105 



The People of Morocco 108 



Progress in Surveying the United States no 



How Much is Known of Alaska „ 112 



A Dictionary of Universal Geography 114 



Correspondence 115 



National Geographic Society 116 



Morocco, "The Land of the Extreme West;" by Ion Perdicaris 117 



Notes on Morocco 157 



Good Books on Morocco 157 



Our Heterogeneous System of Weights and Measures; by Alexander Graham Bell.. 158 



S. P. Langley 170 



Extinct Reptiles Found in Nodules 170 



American Goods in China 173 



Evidence of Recent Volcanic Action in Southeast Alaska 173 



The Wonderful Strides of Africa 176 



U. S. Board on Geographic Names 177 



Geographic Literature 177 



"Jungle Trails and Jungle People" (Caspar Whitney) 177 



"Carpenter's Geographical Reader — Africa" (Frank G. Carpenter) 177 



"The Far East" (Archibald Little) 178 



