INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Plants (continued) : Page 

 California: Mount Rubido, Riverside, Tung 



oil tree of China 893 



California, oasis of date palms 895 



California, dates ripening in the desert re- 

 gion of southern 894 



California, Bakersfield, Tevis bamboo grove 



of 886 



California, young orchard at the Chico plant 



introduction garden 903 



Caucasus, new bamboo grove in the 884 



Chinese villages, bamboo wares as they are 



offered for sale 887 



China, wild peach of 903 



Dates, looking for the ripe 894 



Egypt, Arab climbing a date palm 893 



Florida: Government grove of timber and 



edible bamboo 890 



Florida, Sandershaw mango of Indian fruit- 

 ing in 880 



Gobi Desert, Russian peasants gathering 



seeds of the wild alfalfa near 895 



Grape, seedless 896 



Indian bamboo 888 



Japanese udo, blanched shoots of the 904 



Mango plants, new 883 



Mango tree, a seedling in full bearing 882 



Mango tree in full fruit 881 



Ming Tombs Valley, orchard of Chinese per- 

 simmons in 900 



Mongolia, alfalfa seed from 896 



Olive trees, the hardiest bearing of which we 



have any record 899 



Tamopan persimmon 902 



Persimmon tree, giant oriental 901 



Persimmons, the giant Chinese 900 



Plant immigrants, new 897 



Texas: Brownsville, a bamboo windbreak... 890 

 Udo, first commercial bunch of, put up in 



this country 905 



Yang-Tse River, bamboo timber as it is 



rafted down 885 



Yang-Tse Valley, fruits of the Yang Taw 



vine of the 906 



Polar Regions: 

 Antarctic : 



Mount Frebus, seals emerging from the 



water at their blow-holes near 408 



Seal destined for the larder 385 



Seal suckling young 407 



Arctic : 



Bering Sea: Bear, hauling aboard an im- 

 mense polar 285 



Bering Sea, walrus in the ice of 290 



Bering Sea, walrus hunting in 285-287 



Bering Strait, sailing by vast herds of walrus 



in 286 



Walrus heads, fifty unusually magnificent. . . 288 



Walrus tusks, chopping off the 289 



Walrus tusks, part of one morning's "bag" 



of 289 



Reptiles : 



Africa: Python, ball 621 



Africa, South: Lizard, spiny 614 



Africa, West: Viper, rhinoceros 623 



Aldabra Islands: Tortoise, giant 607 



Reptiles (continued) : Page 



Alligator, the king of the alligator farm.... 612 



America, tropical: Bushmaster 625 



Arizona: Lizard, horned 614 



Australia: Monitor 619 



Australia: Turtle, snake-necked 606 



Brontosaurus 602 



California: Boa, rubber 630 



Ceylon : Snake charmers 628 



Diplodocus 603 



Ganges: Gavial 615 



Guianas: Matamata 605 



Guianas and Brazil: Tegu, black 616 



India, snake charmers in 629 



Malaysia: Dragon, flying 617 



Mississippi Valley: Turtle, soft shelled 609 



Python, trying to measure a Regal 630 



South America: Anaconda, newly arrived 



from 632 



South America: Cobra, the poison-spitting 



black 622 



South America and the Lesser Antilles: 



Fer-de-Lance 624 



St. Augustine: Alligators, a pile of young.. 610 

 St. Augustine: Alligators, some of the big 



fellows 611 



Stegosaurus 604 



Tropical seas: Turtle, leathery 606 



United States, central: Snake, fox 626 



United States, southeast: Rattlesnake, dia- 

 mond back 625 



United States, southern: Snake, rat 621 



United States, southern: Turtle, soft shelled. 608 



United States, southwest: Gila monster 618 



South America: 

 Brazil : 



Basins for maceration of coffee before pulp- 

 ing 919 



Basins where the coffee is washed after being 



picked 918 



Brazilian coffee plantation 910 



Canal for carrying coffee from maceration 



basins to pulping machinery 921 



Coffee machinery 936 



Coffee tree covered with berries 915 



Drying grounds showing the openings for 



the escape of water 922 



Coffee, picking 917 



Santos: Coffee warehouse 928 



Santos docks, loading coffee at the 929 



Santos, port of 927 



Sao Paulo: Coffee trees, young 912 



Sao Paulo: Fazenda Santa Cruz, drying 



grounds 920 



Sao Paulo: Fazenda Santa Cruz, drying 

 grounds, showing method of distributing 



coffee 922 



Sao Paulo: Santa Veridiana, coffee fazenda. 911 

 Sao Paulo : Fazenda Santa Veridiana, dry- 

 ing grounds, showing method of spread- 

 ing coffee 923 



Sao Paulo: Fazenda Santa Veridiana, track 

 from drying grounds to machinery 



house 925 



Sao Paulo : Fazenda Supercio, San Manoel . . 924 



Sao Paulo: Picking coffee 916 



