GEOGRAPHIC NOTES 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



THE annual meeting of the National 

 Geographic Society was held at 

 Washington, January 13. Eight mem- 

 bers of the Board of Managers were 

 elected to serve for the three years, 

 1 905-1907, as follows : 



Alexander Graham Bell, Alfred H. 

 Brooks, Henry Gannett, General A. W. 

 Greely, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Angelo 

 Heilprin, O. H. Tittmann, and General 

 John M. Wilson. 



Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, was elected to fill 

 the vacancy in the Board caused by the 

 resignation of Prof. Wm. M. Davis, of 

 Harvard University. 



The report of the Secretary, Hon. 

 O. P. Austin, showed that the present 

 membership of the Society is 3,400, of 

 whom 1,125 are residents of Washing- 

 ton and 2,275 distributed throughout 

 the United States, Alaska, Philippines, 

 Europe, Asia, and Africa. The net 

 gain in membership for 1904 was 7S9. 

 During 1904 the Society held 12 scien- 

 tific meetings, 16 special meetings, and 

 4 field meetings. 



At a meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers January 27 Dr Willis L. Moore, 

 Chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, was 

 elected President of the Society. Dr 

 Moore has been actively identified with 

 the Society for many years, serving on 

 the Board of Managers since 1899. At 

 the same meeting Mr Henry Gannett, 

 Geographer of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, was elected Vice-President. 

 Mr Gannett was one of the incorporat- 

 ors of the Society, in 1888, and with 

 the exception of the year 1903, which 

 he passed in the Philippines, he has 

 served continuously on the Board since 

 the Society was founded. 



CHART OF THE WORLD 



THROUGH the courtesy of the 

 Hydrographic Office of the Navy 

 Department, and more particularly of 



Captain H. M. Hodges, hydrographer, 

 and Mr George W. Eittlehales, the 

 National Geographic Magazine 

 publishes as a supplement to this num- 

 ber a chart of the world on Mercator's 

 projection, showing the submarine cable 

 lines and their connections and ocean 

 routes. Cable and telegraph lines are 

 printed in red and ocean routes in blue. 

 The latest cable lines are shown — as, 

 for instance, the Alaskan cables of the 

 U. S. Signal Corps and the wireless 

 connection across Norton Sound. The 

 tables of distances printed on the bot- 

 tom of the chart will doubtless be found 

 very convenient by many. One table 

 tells at a glance the comparative dis- 

 tances of New York and Shanghai, or 

 Yokohama by the Panama, Suez, and 

 Cape of Good Hope routes. Another 

 table gives the distances of our Gulf 

 ports from the Atlantic end of the 

 Panama Canal (Colon), and also from 

 each other. The chart can be easily 

 detached from the Magazine and hung 

 on the wall for more convenient use. 



NOTES ON THE PHILIPPINES 



ONE of the most striking facts in the 

 report for 1904 of Col. Clarence R. 

 Edwards, U. S. Army, Chief of the Bu- 

 reau of Insular Affairs, is the statement 

 that only $5,300,000, or less than 8 per 

 cent, of the $69,000,000 worth of goods 

 entering and leaving the Philippine Isl- 

 ands in 1904 were carried in American 

 bottoms. What a lamentable instance 

 of the insignificance of our merchant 

 marine, which, like our iron, coal, and 

 agricultural industries, ought to be the 

 greatest in the world. 



During the year nearly 13,000 Ameri- 

 cans went to the Philippines with the in- 

 tention of making their permanent home 

 there. Most of them did not specify the 

 nature of their occupation, but among 

 those who did were 333 teachers, 1 1 7 en- 

 gineers, 50 physicians, 47 clergymen, 33 

 lawyers, 406 clerks and accountants, 1 86 



