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VoL XVI MARCH, 1905 No. 3 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



The Characteristics of the Japanese People. By Baron Kent at o 



Kaneko, of the House of Peers of Japan 94 



Geographic Names in the United States and the Stories They 

 Tell. By R. H. Whitbeck, of the New Jersey State Normal 



School J00 



A Growing Gimp in the Tanana Gold Fields, Alaska. By 



Sidney Paige, of the U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated . 104: 



The Industrial Training of the German People. Illustrated . . \\\ 



Philip Nolan and the 44 Levant." By Edward Everett Hale . . U4 



Progress in the Philippines ft 6 



The Gardens of the West. Illustrated 117 



The Cause of the Earth's Heat J 24 



Maps Recently Issued by the U. S. Geological Survey .... 125 



Notes from Our Consuls i 26 



Geographic Notes. Illustrated J 27 



Geographic Literature J 33 



National Geographic Society J 37 



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