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In the Savage South Seas ; by Beatrice Grimshaw i 



Studies on the Rate of Evaporation at Reno, Nevada, and in the Salton Sink; by Prof. 



Frank H. Bigelow, U. S. Weather Bureau 20 



Methods of Obtaining Salt in Costa Rica 28 



Dr Bell's Man-Lifting Kite 35 



More Changes of the Colorado River 52 



Honors for Amundsen 55 



Recession of the Glaciers of Glacier Bay, Alaska; by Fremont Morse, U. S. Coast and 



Geodetic Survey 76 



The National Geographic Society 78 



Policemen of the Air ; an account of the Biological Survey of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture ; by Henry W. Shaw 79 



A Few Thoughts Concerning Eugenics ; by Alexander Graham Bell 119 



The Carnegie Institution 124 



A Jumping Salmon 124 



Children of the World 126 



Ten Years in the Philippines 141 



A Bear Hunt in Montana; by Arthur Alvord Stiles, Topographer, U. S. Geological 



Survey ; 149 



A Journey Through the Eastern Portion of the Congo State; by Major P. H. G. PowEll- 



COTTON 155 



In the Valley of the Niger 164 



Marking the Alaskan Boundary 176 



A Drowned Empire ; by Robert H. Chapman 190 



Haiti : A Degenerating Island : the Story of its Past Grandeur and Present Decay ; by 



Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. Navy 200 



The Madura Temples ; by J. S. Chandler 218 



The Bear Hunt 222 



Among Honest People : Straw sandals for sale by the roadside near Arita, Japan ; by 



Eliza R. Scidmore 223 



The Native Oysters of the West Coast ; by Robert E. C. Stearns, Honorary Associate in 



Zoology, U. S. National Museum 224 



Topographic Maps Issued by the Geological Survey in 1907 227 



National Geographic Society 230 



Along the Old Inca Highway ; by Harriet Chalmers Adams 231 



Home-Making by the Government ; by C. J. Blanchard, Statistician, U. S. Reclamation 



Service 250 



Medieval Tales of the Lop Basin in Central Asia ; by Ellsworth Huntington 289 



The Key to the Pacific ; by Hon. George C. Perkins 295 



Hawaii for Homes ; by H. P. Wood 298 



Why Nik-ko is Beautiful ; by J. H. DE Forrest 300 



Where East Meets West ; by Marian C. Coffin 309 



An American Fable; by GiFFord Pinchot, Chief of the United States Forest Service. . . . 345 



Persia : the Awakening East ; by W. P. CrESSON 356 



Conservation of Our Natural Resources 384 



The Nome Gold Fields 384 



Geographical Congress 385 



New Topographic Maps 386 



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