Important Geographic Publication 



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Where newcomers enter the black belt 

 they go in colonies, settle near the rail- 

 road, and dispense with the negro. 

 Much of the immigration does not in- 

 crease the population of a community ; 

 it simply displaces the negro. Com- 

 pared with the great volume of immi- 

 gration to the West and North, the 

 numbers that go South are insignifi- 

 cant ; but compared with the numbers 

 that went South ten years and more 

 ago, the recent movement is very im- 

 portant. There is plenty of vacant land, 

 and the Southerners say that if a mil- 

 lion settlers have come and are satisfied, 

 there is no reason why other millions 

 may not come. 



AN IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHIC 

 PUBLICATION 



THE report of the Eighth Inter- 

 national Geographic Congress, 

 which met in the United States in Sep- 

 tember, 1904, has just appeared from 

 the Government Printing Office, and 

 copies are now being distributed to the 

 members of the Congress. The volume 

 makes a book of 1065 pages, illustrated 

 by maps, diagrams, and photographs, 

 and contains 148 papers and abstracts 

 contributed by geographers from all 

 parts of the world. It is one of the 

 most valuable additions to geographic 

 knowledge published during recent 

 years. The expense of publication has 

 been paid by the United States govern- 

 ment in accordance with an act of Con- 

 gress passed March 3, 1905. A useful 

 feature of the report is the arrangement 

 of the proceedings by means of which 

 any act of the Congress may be readily 

 found. The arrangement is : History 

 of the Congress, organization, with offi- 

 cers, committees, lists of members, of 

 associate members, and of delegates and 

 institutions represented, and a summary 

 of membership and attendance, diary of 

 the Congress, minutes of the general 

 meetings, minutes of the meetings of 

 the presidency, addresses, reports of 



committees and resolutions adopted, and 

 papers. Ten of the papers included in 

 the volume have been published in this 

 magazine. The following titles show 

 the wide range of subjects discussed in 

 the report : 



Scientific Exploration of Caves. Prof. E. A. 

 Martel. 



The Valleys and Lakes of the Alps. Dr Al- 

 brecht Penck. 



The Geography of Alaska. Mr A. H. Brooks. 



A Climatological Dictionary for the United 

 States. Prof. A. J. Henry. 



The Canadian Climate. Prof. R. F. Stupart. 



Evidences of Land Near the North Pole. 

 Prof. R. A. Harris. 



Glacial Exploration in the MontanajRockies. 

 Prof, L- W. Chaney. 



Geographic Work of the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. Messrs W. C. Hodgkinsand 

 G. R. Putnam. 



Evidence in Favor of the Former Connection 

 of Brazil and Africa. Prof. Charles C. Adams. 



The Conditions of Man's Origin. Dr Leoni- 

 das Chalikiopoulos 



The Peoples of the Philippines. Mr Henry 

 Gannett. 



Africa Between the River Juba and the Nile. 

 Dr A. Donaldson Smith. 



A Comparative View of the Arctic and Ant- 

 arctic. Dr Frederick A. Cook. 



The Everglades of Florida. Rev. J. N. Mac- 

 Gonigle. 



Geography of the Pan-American Railway. 

 Charles M. Pepper. 



Future Explorations in Australia. Prof. 

 David I^indsay. 



Maps: Handling, Classifying, Cataloguing. 

 Thomas Letts. 



Some Recent Governmental Influences upon 

 the Geographic Conditions of Commerce. Prof. 

 Emory R. Johnson. 



Rise and Development of the German Colo- 

 nial Possessions. Graf von Pfeil. 



The Economic Importance of the Plateaus in 

 Tropic America. Prof. J. R. Smith. 



The Atlantic Ferry. Capt. D. J. Keunelly. 



The Caribbean Sea Regions and Their Re- 

 sources. Francis C. Nichols. 



A Plea for the Establishment of a Commer- 

 cial Game and Fur Preserve in the Northwest. 

 DrTownsend W. Thorndike. 



Geography and History in the United States, 

 Prof. Albert P. Brigham. 



IRRIGATION REPORTS 



THE following Water-Supply and 

 Irrigation Papers have been issued 

 recently by the U. S. Geological Sur- 



