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THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 



Editor : GILBERT H. GROSVENOR 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



GENERAL A. W. GREELY 



Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army 



W J McGEE 



Chief Department of Anthropology and Eth- 

 nology, Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture 



WILLIS L. MOORE 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture 



O. H. TITTMANN 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey 



O. P. AUSTIN 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Depart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labor 



DAVID G. FAIRCHILD 



Agricultural Explorer of the Department 

 of Agriculture 



ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 

 Washington, D. C. 



DAVID T. DAY 



Chief of the Division of Mineral Resources, 

 U. S. Geological Survey 



ALFRED H. BROOKS 



Chief of Alaskan Division, U. S. Geological 

 Survey 



ANGELO HEILPRIN 



Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 



R. D. SALISBURY 



University of Chicago 

 G. K. GILBERT 



U. S. Geological Survey 

 ALEXANDER McADIE 



Professor of Meteorology, U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, San Francisco 

 ALMON GUNNISON 



President St Lawrence University 



VOL. XVI— YEAR 1905 



Published by the National Geographic Society 

 Hubbard Memorial Hall 

 Washington, D. C. 



