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THE 



NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 



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Copyright, 1908, by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. All rights reserved 



An Illustrated Monthly, published by the 

 National Geographic Society. All editorial 

 communications should be addressed to Gilbert 

 H. Grosvenor, Editor the National Geographic 

 Magazine. Business communications should be 

 addressed to the National Geographic Society. 



25 CENTS A NUMBER; SUBSCRIPTION $2.50 A YEAR 



Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



Associate Editors 



MA J. GEN. A. W. GREELY 

 U. S. Army 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



WILLIS L. MOORE 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture 



O. H. TITTMANN 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey 



O. P. AUSTIN 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 

 Department of Commerce and 

 Labor 



ROB'T HOLLISTER CHAPMAN 

 U. S. Geological Survey 



DAVID G. FAIRCHILD 



Agricultural Explorer Of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture 



ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 

 Washington, D. C. 



DAVID T. DAY 



U. S. Geological Survey 



R. D. SALISBURY 



- University of Chicago 



G. K. GILBERT 



U. S. Geological Survey 



ALEXANDER McADIE 



Professor of Meteorology, U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, San Francisco 



ALMON GUNNISON 



President St Lawrence University 



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