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H THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor 



GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



Associate Editor 



JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE 



Assistant Editor 



WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER 



Contributing Editors 



A. W.GREELY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 



Arctic Explorer, Major Gen'l U. S. Army 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Ml ki .- i a j £ o • In Charge or Agricultural Exploration*, 



ember National Academy of Sciences n f a_ •„!,,„_ 



DAVID FAIRCHILD 

 i Charge of Ag 

 Dept. of Agriculture 



O. H. TITTMANN 



Former Superintendent of U. S. Coast HUGH M. SMITH 



and Geodetic Survey Commissioner, U. S. Bureau of Fiiheries 



N. H. DARTON 



ROBERT HOLL1STER CHAPMAN 

 U. S. Geological Survey 



WALTER T. SWINGLE FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



Vol. XXX— July -December, 1916 



NOV 51981 



COPYRIGHT 1916 BY 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 



