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can for a moment claim world record 

 with men until some one goes higher. 

 Dr Workman went to 22,650 feet. We 

 camped higher than any one has yet 

 camped, highest camp being 19,899 feet, 

 20,632 feet, and camp America 21,300 

 feet! All of us conquered two other 

 virgin snow peaks of 18,743 feet and 

 20,168 feet and four snow columns from 

 16,500 to 17,300 feet. My idea was to 

 have European porters carry all camp 

 kit after coolies gave out, and this they 

 did successfully from the third camp on. 

 There was chance for observing the ef- 

 fects of rarefied air, and we found in- 

 somnia our greatest difficulty. No one 

 slept more than a very few minutes at a 

 time at our three last camps. Our lowest 

 minimum temperature at Camp America 

 was —6° F., and it was bitter in a Mum- 

 mery tent. This is my last trip, I sup- 

 pose, but it was glorious and I hate to 

 leave the Himalayas. We climbed well 

 above the Duke, did we not ?" 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



ON another page is printed the 

 program of addresses before the 

 National Geographic Society during the 

 season of 1906-1907, practically all of 

 which will be published in this Magazine 

 during the coming year. In our Decem- 

 ber number we shall publish a series of 

 illustrations of "The Greatest Hunt in 

 the World" — the drive of wild elephants 

 in Siam — with an article by Miss Eliza 

 R. Scidmore, Foreign Secretary of the 

 National Geographic Society. The same 

 number will contain the address of Hon. 

 John W. Foster, formerly Secretary of 

 State and chairman of the Chinese Dele- 

 gation to The Hague, on "The New 

 China" ; the address of Dr A. P. Davis, 

 Assistant Chief Engineer, U. S. Reclama- 

 tion Service, on "The Great New Take 

 in Southern California made by the Colo- 

 rado River," which has at last been re- 

 duced to control again, and also the ad- 

 dress, "Colombia — a Land of Great 

 Possibilities," by Hon. John Barrett, 

 U. S. Minister to Colombia. 



RECENT MAGNETIC WORK BY THE 

 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASH- 

 INGTON 



Magnetic Survey of Pacific Ocean. — 

 The yacht Galilee, under the command of 

 Mr W. J. Peters, successfully concluded 

 a cruise of 20,000 miles, leaving San 

 Diego March 2 last and returning Octo- 

 ber 20. The following region was em- 

 braced, as indicated by the ports of call, 

 namely : Fanning Island, Samoan Islands, 

 Fiji Islands, Marshall Islands, Guam, 

 Yokohama, San Diego. Mr Peters' as- 

 sistants were Mr J. P. Ault and Mr J. C. 

 Pearson, magnetic observers, and Dr H. 

 E. Martyn, surgeon and recorder, Captain 

 J. T. Hayes being the sailing master, as in 

 the cruise of 1905. In all thus far the 

 magnetic elements have been charted over 

 about half of the North Pacific Ocean 

 during the two cruises of 1905 and 1906. 

 The vessel is expected to leave early in 

 December on a third cruise beginning at 

 San Diego and touching at the following 

 ports : Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Apia, 

 Yap, Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, 

 Dutch Harbor, Sitka, and returning to 

 San Diego. 



Land Magnetic Work.- — Dr Charles K. 

 Edmunds, professor of physics at Chris- 

 tian College, Macao, China, determined 

 the three magnetic elements (declination, 

 dip, and intensity) at a number of stations 

 along the Chinese coast. In the South 

 Pacific Ocean, observations were made on 

 various islands by Mr G. Heimbrod. In 

 Canada the magnetic elements were de- 

 termined by Dr L. A. Bauer and Messrs 

 P. H. Dike and E. H. Bowen at 70 sta- 

 tions, distributed uniformly between the 

 parallels of 42 ° and 49 ° and the merid- 

 ians of longitude 65 ° and 105 ° west; in 

 this region but comparatively few obser- 

 vations existed. With the completion of 

 the latter work it is now possible to ex- 

 tend the magnetic maps for the United 

 States to the forty-ninth parallel across 

 the continent. The United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey has in preparation a 

 new set of magnetic maps based upon all 

 accurate data obtained to date. 



