Sfcs NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



as 



Vol. XIX 



JANUARY, 1908 



No. 1 



CONTENTS 

 In the Savage South Seas. By Beatrice Grimshaw. Illustrated. 



Studies on the Rate of Evaporation at Reno, Nevada, and in 

 the Salton Sink. By Prof. Frank H. Bigelow, U. S. Weather Bureau. 

 Illustrated. 



Methods of Obtaining Salt in Costa Rica. Illustrated. 



Dr Bell's Man-lifting Kite: Illustrated. 



More Changes of the Colorado River. 



Honors for Amundsen. Illustrated. 



The Recession of the Glaciers of Glacier Bay, Alaska. By Fremont 

 Morse, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



The National Geographic Society. 



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