CONTENTS 



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Wild Man and Wild Beast in Africa; by Theodore Roosevelt, Honorary Member of 



the National Geographic Society i 



The Population of the United States; by Henry Gannett 34 



Women of All Nations 49 



Damascus, the Pearl of the Desert; by A. Forder, of Jerusalem 62 



Surveys in the Philippines 82 



Acknowledgment 82 



Dumboy, the National Dish of Liberia; by G. N. Collins 84 



Notes on Oman; by Rev. S. M. ZwEmer, Bahrein, on the Persian Gulf 89 



Protecting our Forests from Fire; by Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.. 98 



The Roosevelt African Trophies 103 



The Snake Dance; by Marion L. Oliver 107 



Taming the Wild Blueberry; by Frederick V. CovillE 137 



The Panama Canal ; by Colonel George W. Goethals, Chief Engineer of the Panama 



Canal 149 



The National Geographic Society 211 



Navaho Indians 212 



Field Sports Among the Wild Men of Northern Luzon; by Dean C. Worcester, Secre- 

 tary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands 215 



In Honor of the Army and Aviation 266 



Hunting the Walrus 285 



Cuernavaca, the Sun Child of the Sierras; by Russele Hastings Mile ward 291 



Notes on Southern Mexico ; by G. N. Collins and C. B. Doyle, of the U. S. Department 



of Agriculture 301 



Pests and Parasites ; Why We Need a National Law to Prevent the Importation of 

 Insect-infested and Diseased Plants ; by Charles LESTER Marlatt, of the Bureau 



of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture 321 



Our Greatest Travelers : Birds that Fly from Pole to Pole and Shun the Darkness : 

 Birds that Make 2,500 Miles in a Single Flight; by Wells W. Cooke, of the Bio- 

 logical Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture 346 



The Country of the Ant Men; by Thomas H. Kearney 367 



Recent Geographic Advances, Especially in Africa; by General A. W. GrEEly, L t . S. 



Army , 283 



American Potash for America ; by Guy Elliott Mitchell, of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey 399 



South Polar Explorations 407 



Our Desert Panorama 409 



JVIap of Mexico 4™ 



Shore-whaling: A World Industry; by Roy Chapman Andrews, Assistant Curator of 



Mammals, American Museum of Natural Plistory 411 



A Land of Drought and Desert — Lower California : Two Thousand Miles on Horse- 

 back Through the Most Extraordinary Cacti Forests in the World ; by E. W. 



Nelson, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 443 



Our Neighbor, Mexico; by John BirkinbinE, Past President of the Franklin Institute 



of Philadelphia and of the American Institute of Mining Engineers 475 



A Geologist's Paradise ; by Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion 509 



The National Geographic Society Researches in Alaska ; by Lawrence Martin, Leader 



of the National Geographic Society's 1910 Expedition to Alaska 537 



Acknowledgments 560 



The Wonders of the Mosi-oa Tunga : The Falls of the Zambesi ; by Louis Livingston 



Seaman, M. D 561 



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