&Ae NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



VoL XVI NOVEMBER, J905 No* it 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Geography. By the late Sir William Wharton, formerly 



Hydrographer of the British Admiralty .... 483 



The Birthplace of Civilization. Illustrated .... 499 



The Proportion of Children in the United States. Illustrated . 504 



The Returns from Alaska. Illustrated 5\Z 



"We Occupy the Best Position on the Map 5J4 



Forests Vital to Our Welfare 5*5 



Cotton and the Chinese Boycott 516 



Immigration to the Southern States 517 



Gannett's * Commercial Geography." Illustrated . . . 520 



Alleyne Ireland's "The Far Eastern Tropics" .... 525 



National Geographic Society 527 



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