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THE 



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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor 



GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



Associate Editors 



A. W. GREELY 



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



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief U. S. Biological Survey 



ROBERT HOLLISTER CHAPMAN 



U. S. Geological Survey 



G. K. GILBERT 



U. S, Geological Survey 



O. H. T1TTMANN 



Superintendent of U. S. Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey 



ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 

 Inventor of the Telephone 



DAVID T. DAY 



U. S. Geological Survey 



DAVID G. FAIRCHILD 



In Charge of Agricultural Explorations, 

 Dept. of Agriculture 



ALEXANDER McADIE 



Professor of Meteorology, United States 

 Weather Bureau, San Francisco 



HUGH M. SMITH 



Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries 



Assistant Editor 



JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE 



Vol. XX— Year 1909 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCI 

 HUBBARD MEMORIAL HAL]/ 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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