WHERE THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE IS PRINTED 



This new building of Judd & Detweiler, Inc., who have printed the Magazine of the 

 National Geographic Society since 1888, has just been erected by them for the exclusive use 

 of the National Geographic Magazine. 



all expeditions is printed in the Maga- 

 zine, while the technical results appear 

 in separate monographs published by the 

 Society. 



AEE KINDS OP QUESTIONS 



The correspondence of the National 

 Geographic Society indicates the remark- 

 able range of interest of its members. 

 Here is a letter from a man wanting to 

 know who publishes the best bathymetri- 

 cal chart ; here another inquiring as to 

 the measures of the arcs of parallel south 

 of the Equator ; a third asks for precise 

 information upon the rate of movement 

 of glaciers. A New York lawyer has a 

 case in which the crucial events take place 

 in a town with an unpronounceable name 

 in South America ; his office atlas and the 

 public library gazetteer alike fail to dis- 

 close its location. In despair he writes 

 to the National Geographic Society, and 

 by return mail is put in possession of the 

 town's precise location, with details of 

 the easiest way to reach it. A merchant, 

 called on business to the west coast of 

 South Africa, writes to know what pre- 



cautions will be necessary to maintain 

 his health and what kind of clothing he 

 should take along. Here is a letter from 

 a man who wonders where gum arabic 

 comes from ; another wants to know the 

 height of Mt. McKinley ; another seeks 

 to ascertain why afforestation promotes 

 rainfall ; another asks the Society why 

 the twilight period in the tropics is so 

 short. All of these hundreds of inquiries 

 must be answered, although some of 

 them require much patient investigation. 



The Magazine receives hundreds of 

 comments and suggestions from the 

 members each month. Many of these 

 are helpful and all encouraging. Some 

 of them express so admirably the objects 

 of the Geograppiic Magazine that sev- 

 eral are printed in part below. 



"An odd thing happened the other day. 

 I stopped by the public library to get 

 something to take home to read, and de- 

 cided to take home three of the back 

 numbers of your Magazine. I was in- 

 tensely interested in them. 



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