^NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



Vol. XVII AUGUST, J906 No. 8 



CONTENTS 



SOUTH AMERICAN NUMBER 



PAGE 

 Frontispiece— Map of South America. 



South America Fifty Years Hence. By Charles M. Pepper, Member 



Permanent Pan-American Railway Co. . . . . .427 



New Peruvian Route to the Plain of the Amazon. By Prof. Solon I. 



Bailey, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard College. Illustrated . . 432 



From Panama to Patagonia. By Charles M. Pepper. Illustrated . 449 



The Fertile Pampas of Argentine. By Edward James Cattell . . 453 



The Falls of Iguazu. By Marie Robinson Wright. Illustrated . .456 



The Gypsy Moth. Illustrated •■■....,;". 461 



The Shattered Obelisk of Mont Pelee. By Prof. Angelo Heilprin. Illus- 

 trated . . 465 



What the Latin-American Republics Think of the Pan-American Con- 

 ferences .... 474 



Geographic Literature , • 480 



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