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Geography ; by Rear- Admiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, K. C. B., F. R. S 483 



The Supposed Birthplace of Civilizations 499 



Proportion of Children in the United States 504 



Ketchikan ; by O. H. T 508 



The Returns from Alaska 513 



Progress in the Philippines 513 



The Best Position on the Map 514 



Forests Vital to Our Welfare 515 



Cotton and the Chinese Boycott 516 



Immigration to the Southern States ; Summary of a Study by Prof. Wai/TER L. FLEMING. 517 



An Important Geographic Publication 519 



Irrigation Reports , 519 



Geographic Literature 520 



"Commercial Geography" (Henry Gannett, Carl Louise Garrison, ^and Edwin J. 



Houston. . 520 



" The Italians in America " (Elliot Lord, John J. D. Trenor, and Samuel J. Barrows) . 524 



" The Far-Eastern Tropics " ( Alleyne Ireland, F. R. G. S ) 525 



"A Century of Expansion" (Willis Fletcher Johnson, L. H. D.) 526 



Some Recent Government Reports 527 



National Geographic Society, Meetings of 527 



The Parsees and the Towers of Silence at Bombay, India ; by Wiujam Thomas Fee, 



U. S Consul General, Bombay 529 



China and the United States ; by Sir ChenTung Liang-Cheng, K. C. M. G., Envoy 



Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from China to the United States 554 



What Has Been Accomplished by the United States Toward Building the Panama Canal ; 



by Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission 558 



Russia in Recent Literature ; by General A. W. Greedy, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A 562 



The New Erie Canal 568 



Annual Dinner of National Geographic Society 570 



Australia's future ; by W. J. Ballard 570 



World's Production of Gold 571 



China is Not Overpopulated 572 



"An Observer in the Philippines" (J. B. Devins) 573 



" The Philippine Islands" (F. W. Atkinson) 574 



" Our Philippine Problem " (H. P. Willis) 574 



"Michigan" (T. M. Cooley) 575 



" Two Bird Lovers in Mexico " (C. W. Beebe) 575 



"Arizona Sketches" (J. A. Munk) 575 



National Geographic Society 575 



