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The National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909; by Ralph S. Tarr, of 

 Cornell University, and Lawrence Martin, of the University of Wisconsin, Leaders 



of the Expedition i 



Photography in Glacial Alaska; by O. D. von Engeln, Photograpl of the National 



Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909 54 



The Discovery of the North Pole 63 



The Coal-Fields of Alaska : With a Few Notes on the Mineral Wealth of the Territory 83 



Acknowledgments 88 



The National Geographic Society 88 



The New York Aquarium 90 



A Traveler's Notes on Java; by Henry G. Bryant 91 



An Ancient Capital ; by Isabel F. Dodd, Professor of Art and Archeology in the Ameri- 

 can College for Girls, Constantinople iii 



The International Millionth Map of the World; by Bailey Willis, U. S. Geological 



Survey 125 



The Land of the Crossbow; by George Forrest 132 



The Great Natural Bridges of Utah; by Byron Cummings, University of Utah 157 



The South Polar Expedition 167 



Wilkes' and D'Urville's Discoveries in Wilkes Land; by Rear Admiral John E. Pills- 

 bury, U. S. Navy 171 



The Great Ice Barrier; by Henry Gannett 173 



The Barrage of the Nile ; by Day AllEn WillEy 175 



National Geographic Society 184 



The Race for the South Pole 185 



Romantic Spain; by Charles Upson Clark, of Yale University 187 



A New National Park; by Guy Elliott Mitchell, U. S. Geological Survey 215 



The Most Curious Craft Afloat. The Compass in Navigation and the Work of the 

 Non-Magnetic Yacht "Carnegie"; by L. A. Bauer, Director of Department of 



Research in Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington 223 



The Duke of the Abruzzi in the Himalayas 245 



In Valais ; by Louise Murray 249 



Scenes in Switzerland 257 



Deer Farming in the United States 269 



National Geographic Society 276 



Landslides and Rock Avalanches; by Guy Elliott Mitchell 277 



Mukden, the Manchu Home, and its Great Art Museum; by Eliza R. ScidmorE 289 



Scenes in Italy 321 



The Spirit of the West: The Wonderful Agricultural Development Since the Dawn of 



Irrigation; by C. J. Blanchard, U. S. Reclamation Service 333 



Artesian Water Predictions 361 



Ascending Mont Blanc 363 



National Geographic Society 365 



The National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition 370 



The House-Fly; by N. A. Cobb 371 



Notes on the Distances Flies Can Travel; by N. A. Cobb 380 



Fight the Flies 383 



Camera Adventures in the African Wilds 385 



The First Transandine Railroad from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso; by Harriet Chal- 

 mers Adams 397 



The First Transandine Train 417 



Federal Fish Farming; or. Planting Fish by the Billion; by Hugh M. Smith, U. S. 



Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries 418 



Our Coal Lands; by Guy Elliott Mitchell 446 



Fishes that Carry Lanterns 453 



Some Tramps Across the Glaciers and Snowfields of British Columbia; by Howard 



Palmer 457 



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