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The Buried Cities of Asia Minor; by Ernest L. Harris, American Consul General to 



Smyrna I 



Lessons from China 18 



■ The Value of the United States Forest Service 29 



The Emancipation of Mohammedan Women ; by Mary Mills Patrick, Ph. D., President 



of the American College for Girls at Constantinople 42 



Sunshine in Turkey; by Howard S. Bliss, President Syrian Protestant College at Beirut 66 



Honors to the American Navy 77 



Sicily, the Battlefield of Nations and of Nature; by Mrs George C. Bosson, Jr 97 



The Ruins at Selinus 117 



Kaleidoscopic La Paz: The City of the Clouds; by Harriet ChamlErs Adams 119 



The Mountaineers of the Euphrates; by Ellsworth Huntington 142 



One Thousand Miles of Railway Built for Pilgrims and not for Dividends ; by Colonel 



F. R. Maunsell 156 



Scenes in Asia Minor 173 



A Jack in the Box : An Account of the Strange Performances of the Most Wonderful 



Island in the World; by Captain F. M. MuNGER, Senior Captain U. S. R. C. S 194 



Conditions in Cuba as Revealed by the Census; by Henry Gannett 200 



A Wasteful Nation 203 



Where Roosevelt Will Hunt; by Sir Harry Johnston, G. C. M. G,, K. C. B., D. Sc. 



Combs, Late Special Commissioner in Uganda, etc., etc 207 



Amid the Snow Peaks of the Equator : A Naturalist's Explorations Around Ruwenzori, 



with an Excursion to the Congo State, and an Account of the Terrible Scourge of 



Sleeping Sickness; by A. F. R. Wollaston 256 



Natal : The Garden Colony ; by Russell Hastings Millward, Formerly American Vice- 



Consul at Durban, Natal 278 



The Magnetic Survey of Africa; by L. A. Bauer, Director, Department of Terrestrial 



Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington 291 



In Civilized French Africa; by James F. J. Archibald, F. R. G. S 303 



The Black Man's Continent 312 



Hunting the Great Brown Bear of Alaska; by George Mixter, 2D, of Boston 313 



The Panama Canal ; by Lieut. Col. Geo. W. GoEThals, U. S. Army, Chairman and Chief 



Engineer, Isthmian Canal Commission 334 



The Original Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia; by Ernest A. ShustEr, Jr., 



U. S. Geological Survey 356 



The Leach's Petrel: His Nursery on Little Duck Island; by Arnold Wood 360 



Colossal Work in Baltimore; by Calvin W. Hendrick, Chief Engineer Sewerage Com- 

 mission o* the City of Baltimore 365 



The World's Most Cruel Earthquake; by Charles W. Wright, of the U. S. Geological 



Survey 373 



The American Red Cross in Italy; by MabEl Boardman, Director of the American Red 



Cross 396 



Shackleton's Farthest South 398 



The Call of the West. Homes are being made for Millions of People in the Arid West; 



by C. J. Blanchard, Statistician, U. S. Reclamation Service 403 



Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist; by George Shiras, 3RD 438 



In Beautiful Delecarlia ; by Lillian Gore 464 



A Plague of Mice. 479 



The National Geographic Society and Geographic Work 485 



Old Mines and Mills in India 489 



Gree'ly's "Handbook of Alaska" 491 



The World's Highest Altitudes and First Ascents; by Charles E. Fay, A.M., Litt. D.. 



President (1878, 1881, 1893, 1905) of the Appalachian Mountain Club, First President 



of the American Alpine Club 493 



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