CONTENTS 



Page 



The Character of our Immigration, Past and Present ; by Z. F. McSwEENY, formerly 



Assistant Commissioner of Immigration I 



Our Immigration during 1904 , 15 



Views of Lhasa 27 



The Farmers of the United States 39 



Educating the Filipinos 46 



Chart of the World 50 



Why no Americans have received Nobel Prizes 30 



The Story of the Flamingo _ 50 



American Forest Congress 50 



Immigration and Naturalization 51 



Progress in China 52 



Obituary (Frederick May Detweiler) , 52 



Geographic Literature 52 



" New Physical Geography " (Ralph S. Tarr) . 52 



"The Non-metallic Minerals" (George P. Merrill). 52 



" Dodge's Elementary Geography " (Richard Elwood Dodge) 53 



National Geographic Society 53 



Program of Meetings, 1905 54 



Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, 25x45 inches . . Supplement 



Russia ; by Hon. Charges Emory Smith, formerly Minister to Russia and ex-Postmaster 



General , 55 



Marine Hydrographic Surveys of the Coasts of the World, with maps ; by George W- 



LiTTLEhal.es 63 



The Wonderful Canals of China ; by U. S. Consul George E. Anderson, Hangchau, 



China 68 



Geography and Culture 70 



Tides in the Bay of Fundy ; by W. M. D 71 



French Conquest of the Sahara; by Chvrt.es RaboT, Editorial Secretary of "La Geo- 

 graphies Member of the Council of Societe de Geographie de Paris 76 



Observations on the Russo-Japanese War in Japan and Manchuria ; by Dr. Louis Living- 

 stone Seaman 80 



Helping the Farmers 82 



National Geographic Society 87 



Chart of the World 87 



Notes on the Philippines 87 



Transportation in England . . 88 



To Observe Solar Eclipse 88 



Ranges of Arizona. 88 



Geographic Literature , 89 



" The Tower of Pelee " (Angelo Heilprin) 89 



"A Naturalist in the Guianas " ( Eugene Andre) 89 



"The Philippine Islands, 1893 -1898" (Blair and Robertson) 91 



"Along the Nile with General Grant " (Elbert E. Farman) 91 



"Out of the Northland " ( Emilie Kip Baker) 91 



M Select List of Books Relating to the Far East " (Edited by Prentiss Clark Griffin). . 91 



" Excursions and Lessons in Home Geography " (Charles A. McMurry) 92 



