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Gathering Irish moss at Scituate, Massachusetts 244 



Bleaching and curing Irish moss at Scituate, Massachusetts 245 



Excellent examples of weathering near Logan Butte, Cook County, Oregon 246 



Stacking alfalfa with a derrick on a western farm 247 



Tamil girls picking tea, Ceylon 248 



Carts with bamboo covers, Ceylon 248 



Map of Northern Manchuria ( 18 x 44 inches) Supplement 



Chart I. Winter storm, December 15, 1893, 8 a. m 268 



Chart II. Winter storm, December 15, 1893, 8 a. m 269 



Chart III. Winter storm, December 16, 1893, 8 a. m 270 



Chart IV. Cold wave, January 7, 1886, 7 a. m 271 



Chart V. Cold wave, January 8, 1886, 7 a. m 272 



Chart VI. Cold wave, January 9, 1886, 7 a. m 273 



Chart VII. Cold wave, January 10, 1886, 7 a. m 274 



Chart VIII. West Indian hurricane, August 27. 1893, 8 a. m .... 275 



Chart IX. West Indian hurricane, August 28, 1893, 8 a. m 276 



Chart X. West Indian hurricane, August 29, 1893, 8 a. m 277 



Chart XI. The Galveston hurricane, 1900 278 



Chart XII. Storm track for August 279 



Chart XIII. Storm tracks for February 280 



Chart XVII. Normal storm tracks for May 281 



Chart XVIII. Tornado at Louisville, Ky., March 27, 1890. Weather map 8 p. m. of this 



date 282 



Chart XIX Tornadoes of 1889— a year of small frequency . . 283 



Chart XX. Tornadoes of 1893 — a year of small frequency 284 



Chart XIV. The average lines along which the centers of storms move in July in the 



Northern Hemisphere 290 



Chart XV. The average lines along which the centers of storms move in January in the 



Northern Hemisphere 291 



A flood scene at Marion, Arkansas, 1903. 293 



The rush of water through the Holly Bush crevasse, Arkansas, 1903 295 



Strengthennig the levees in preparation for the coming of a flood, Lagrange, Mississippi, 



I9°3 • 2 9 6 



Chart XVI. Showing method followed in developing normal storm tracks, etc 297 



Scene in the freight yards at Kansas City after the visitation of a flood, 1903 298 



Flood scene in St Louis, 1903 299 



Chart showing the low central near New Orleans 300 



Map showing seat of war in Manchuria, 18x44 inches Supplement 



The Tsar and Tsarina at home 313 



Latest picture of the Tsar of all the Russias and his interesting family, including Baby 



Tsarevitch .. 314 



Home of Romanoffs, Moscow 315 



A crowd in Theater Square, Moscow . . . 316 



Priests of the orthodox Greek Church on a float upon the Neva River, St Petersburg 317 



Splendid temple of our Saviour in a western district of Moscow 318 



Old defenses of the Kremlin — the citadel of Moscow 319 



Russian cloth market in " the Fair" of Nijni-Novgorod, Russia 320 



The market place, Viborg, Finland 321 



Old St Petersburg 322 



A reservoir after evaporation. Turning up the salt, salt fields, Solinen, Russia 323 



