THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
MAGAZINE
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY
Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVENOR
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
GENERAL A. W. GREELY Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army
W J McGEE Chief Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Louisiana Purchase Exposition
C. HART MERRIAM Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture
WILLIS L. MOORE Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. Department of Agriculture
O. H. TITTMANN Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
O. P. AUSTIN Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor
DAVID G. FAIRCHILD Agricultural Explorer of the Department of Agriculture
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Washington, D. C.
DAVID T. DAY Chief of the Division of Mineral Resources, U. S. Geological Survey
ALFRED H. BROOKS Chief of Alaskan Division, U. S. Geological Survey
ANGELO HEILPRIN Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
R. D. SALISBURY University of Chicago
G. K. GILBERT U. S. Geological Survey
ALEXANDER McADIE Professor of Meteorology, U. S. Weather Bureau, San Francisco
ALMON GUNNISON President St Lawrence University
VOL. XVI—YEAR 1905
Published by the National Geographic Society
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