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through object and action lessons. The chil- 

 dren take much interest in this mode of learn- 

 ing, and make good progress. Night schools 

 have been established for grown people, and 

 are well attended, for the Filipino child and 

 adult are eager to learn. 



A list of Spanish words and their English 

 equivalents, a bibliography, and an index are 

 found at the end of the book. F. M. A. 



BOOKS ON ITALIAN SUBJECTS* 



f'ltaly, Rome, and Naples." Hippolyte 

 Adolphe" Taine. Henry Holt. $2.50. 



f 'Rambles in Naples." S. Russell Forbes. 

 Thomas Nelson Sons. $1.25. 



f'Naples :" The City of Parthenope. Clara 

 Erskine Clement. Dana, Estes & Co. $3.00. 



f'Southern Italy and Sicily, and the Rulers 

 of the South." Francis Marion Crawford. 

 Illustrated by one hundred original drawings 

 by Henry Brokman. Macmillan Co. $2.50. 



f'ltaly and the Italians." Edward Hutton. 

 E. P. Dutton. $1.50. 



f 'Cities of Southern Italy," "Cities of Cen- 

 tral Italy," "Cities of Northern Italy." By 

 Augustus Hare. Macmillan Co. $3.50. 



"[""Travels in Italy." By De Amicis. 



"A Short History of Italy : An attempt to 

 give a correct impression of Italian history as 

 a whole." Henry Dwight Sedgwicke. Hough- 

 ton, Mifflin & Co. $2.00. 



f'ltalian Cities." Edwin Howland Blash- 

 field and Evangeline Wilbur Blashfield. Scrib- 

 ner. 2 volumes. $4.00. 



f'ltalian Byways." John Addington Sy- 

 monds. Scribner. $4.20. 



f'Two in Italy." Maud Howe. Little, 

 Brown & Co. $2.00. 



f 'Roma Beata :" Letters from the Eternal 

 City. Maud Howe. Little, Brown & Co. 

 $2.50. 



f 'Ave Roma Immortalis :" Studies from the 

 Chronicles of Rome. Francis Marion Craw- 

 ford. Macmillan Co. $2.50. 



"Walks in Rome." Augustus Hare. 



f'The Eternal City of Rome:" Its religions, 

 monuments, literature, and art. Clara Erskine 

 Clement. Dana, Estes & Co. 2 volumes. $6.00. 



f'Venetian Life." William Dean Howells. 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 volumes. $5.00. 



f 'Salve Venetia :" Gleanings from Venetian 

 history. Francis Marion Crawford. Mac- 

 millan Co. 2 volumes. $5.00. 



United States Geological Survey, 

 Washington, D. C, April 23, 1906. 

 Editor National Geographic Magazine: 



In your April issue there is a letter by Mr 

 C. M. Taintor relative to glaciers in the Wind 



*It is planned to publish each month a 

 bibliography of good books on some current 

 geographic subject. 



t Illustrated. 



River Range, Wyoming, for which he proposes 

 the name Roosevelt Glaciers. Without consid- 

 ering the desirability of the appellation, it 

 should be pointed out that these glaciers were 

 discovered in 1878 by Prof. W. H. Holmes, 

 Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, when he 

 was conducting one of the expeditions of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, under the direction 

 of F. V. Hayden. Professor Holmes prepared 

 a panorama of the principal glacier, which is 

 included in the atlas accompanying the report 

 of the Hayden Survey for 1878. Later he sup- 

 plied descriptive notes which were incorporated 

 in a memoir by I. C Russell, on "Existing 

 Glaciers in the United States," published in the 

 5th Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, page 344. 



Yours truly, N. H. Darton, 



Geologist. 



ANNUAL EXCURSION OF THE NA- 

 TIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



The annual excursion of the members of the 

 National Geographic Society resident in Wash- 

 ington and vicinity will this year be to the 

 noted Luray Caverns, in Page County, Vir- 

 ginia. The excursion will leave Washington 

 on a special vestibule train from the Baltimore 

 and Ohio depot, Saturday morning, May 19, at 

 eight o'clock sharp, reaching Luray about 

 eleven. Busses will carry the party to the 

 caverns, situated about half a mile from the 

 station, through which they will be escorted in 

 parties by guides. After the excursion through 

 the cave a substantial hot luncheon will be 

 served at the Mansion Inn. Those who prefer 

 can get their luncheon before visiting the cave. 

 The party will take the train again about half 

 past three, reaching Washington about six- 

 thirty. 



Through the courtesy of Mr S. B. Hege, 

 district passenger agent of the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad, the National Geographic Soci- 

 ety has been granted a special rate of $2.50 for 

 the round-trip ticket to Luray. Transporta- 

 tion to the -cave and back, admission fee, and 

 luncheon will cost $1.50 additional ; so that the 

 total expense for the trip' will be $4.00 for each 

 person. (The regular round trip fare to Luray 

 is $5-75 and admission to the caverns and bus 

 fare $1.25, but the daily train schedule is such 

 that a trip to the caverns cannot ordinarily be 

 made with comfort for less than $10.00.) As 

 the committee has been obliged to give a guar- 

 antee of 175 persons in order to secure these 

 special rates, the request is made that every 

 member who intends to take part in the excur- 

 sion will send in his name immediately and the 

 names of the friends accompanying him. The 

 Luray Caverns are among the most wonderful 

 natural phenomena in the world. They are 

 not as large as the Mammoth Cave, but in 

 brilliancy and beauty they are reputed to sur- 

 pass it. 



