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The Malaspiiia glacier lias filled and tihliterated the Icy bay of Van- 
couver and Tebcnkof; the recent Canadian survey indicates that the 
glaciers of Lituya bay have shortened the deep arms described by La 
Perouse ; and the La Perouse glacier upon the ocean shore shows 
positive signs of advance according to the rci)orts of the Harriman ex- 
pedition of 1899. 
"Nevertheless in this region of advance the immense ice blockade 
at the head of Yakutat bay, so well depicted by Malaspina and con- 
firmed by Tebenkof, has been carried away, and the Turner and Hub- 
bard glaciers now discbarge intq the sharp bend at the head of the bay. 
Puel reported there was a small inlet that extended N. 55° E., one 
league behind the ice front, July 27th, 1794." 
This excellent work should form the basis of a thorough survey of 
all the more important glaciers therein mentioned ; and should be in 
the hands of those who visit these regions as a general guide and to 
induce close study and comparison. M. m. 
Dodf^c's Elciiinifury Gcograt^hy. R. E. Dvjdge. 231 pp. Rand, Mc- 
Nally & Co., Chicago, New York, London., Oct. 1903. Price 
75 cents. 
In the nniltipiicily of geographies that are appearing in the 
United States constructed on the more mcxlern ideas, it is some- 
times a little diflficult to discover their individual distinctions. There 
are physical geographies, and geographical geologies, as well as 
geographical histories. In nearly all of the recently published mod- 
ern geographies the lines devoted " to political geography are rather 
few, and those devoted to physiography are many and long. Dodge's 
geography is more evenly balanced. While its chapters and para- 
graphs bear the term of political geography, the maps that illustrate 
them are both political and physical. Of the latter North America, 
for instance, is shown by a beautiful relief map and also by a 
physical map, followed by a political map. The United States is 
also thus thrice mapped. The different seciions of the United States 
are politically mapped and the facts of their industrial diff'erences 
are clearly set forth in the text. This • book dwells more on the- 
facts of geographic distribution of the inhabitants and their occupa- 
tions than upon the physical causes of such distribution. It is pro- 
posed by the author to treat fully of the physiographic elements of 
geography in a more advanced work. The voiume is bountifully 
illustrated by beautiful half-tone engravings from photographs. On 
the 217 pages are numbered 375 such pictures. It would be difficult 
to speak too highly of the excellence of this work as an elementary 
school geography. N. h. w. 
