CONTENTS 



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Here and There in Northern Africa, by Frank Edward Johnson I 



Battling with the Panama Slides, by William Joseph Showalter 133 



The Panama Canal, by Lieut. Col. Wiluam L. SiberT, U. S. A., Engineer in Charge 



of the Atlantic Division 153 



The Nation's Undeveloped Resources, by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the In- 

 terior . 183 



The Probable Effect of the Panama Canal on the Commercial Geography of the 



World, by O. P. Austin 245 



Village Life in the Holy Land, by John D. Whiting 249 



Encouraging Birds Around the Home, by Frederick H. Kennard 315 



Redeeming the Tropics, by Wieeiam Joseph Showalter 344 



Scenes in the Byways of Southern Mexico 359 



Castles in the Air : Experiences and Journeys in Unknown Bhutan, by John Ceaude 



White, C. I. E 365 



The National Geographic Society and Its New Building 455 



Mexico and Mexicans, by Wieeiam Joseph Showaeter 472 



Birds of Town and Country, by Henry W. Henshaw 495 



A Naturalist's Journey Around Vera Cruz and Tampico, by Frank M. Chapman 533 



A Mexican Hacienda : Life on One of the Baronial Estates of Our Southern Neighbor, 



by J. E. Kirkwood 563 



The Home of a Forgotten Race: Mysterious Chichen Itza, in Yucatan, Mexico, by 



Edward H. Thompson 585 



Discovery and Invention, by Alexander Graham Beee 649 



Our Guardians on the Deep, by Wieeiam Joseph Showalter 655 



Honors to Colonel Goethals 677 



