THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX January to June, 1926 VOLUME XLIX PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD, MEMORIAL HALL WASHINGTON, D.C. 345645 GEOGRAPHIC ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS SIXTEENTH AND M STREETS NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D. C. GILBERT GROSVENOR, President JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE, Vice-President JOHN JOY EDSON, Treasurer FRED M. BERTHRONG, Assistant Treasurer O. P. AUSTIN, Secretary HENRY WHITE, Vice-President GEO. W. HUTCHISON, Associate Secretary EDWIN P. GROSVENOR, General Counsel FREDERICK V. COVILLE, Chairman Committee on Research EXECUTIVE STAFF OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE GILBERT GROSVENOR, EDITOR WILLIAM J. SHOWALTER Assistant Editor CHARLES J. BELL FRANKLIN L. FISHER Chief of Illustrations Division J. R. HILDEBRAND, Chief of School Service President American Security and Trust Company JOHN JOY EDSON Chairman of the Board, Washington Loan & Trust Company DAVID FAIRCHILD In charge of Agricultural Explorations, U. S. Department of Agriculture C. HART MERRIAM Member National Academy of O. P. AUSTIN Statistician GEORGE R. PUTNAM Commissioner U. S. Bureau of GEORGE SHIRAS, 3D E. LESTER JONES Director U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ORGANIZED FOR "THE INCREASE AND DIFFUSION OF GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE" All re TO carry out the purposes for which it was founded thirty-eight years ago, the National Geographic Society publishes this Magazine. ceipts are invested in the Magazine itself or expended directly to promote geographic knowledge. ARTICLES and photographs are desired.. For material which the Magazine can use, generous remuneration is made. Contributions Should be accompanied by an addressed return envelope and postage. IMMEDIATELY after the terrific eruption of the world's largest crater, Mt. Katmai, in Alaska, a National Geographic Society expedition was sent to make observations of this remarkable phenomenon. Four expeditions have followed and the extraordinary scientific data resulting given to the world. In this vicinity an eighth wonder of the world was discovered and explored-"The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes," a vast area of steaming, spouting fissures. As a result of The Society's discoveries this area has been created a National Monument by proc. lamation of the President of the United States. AT an expense of over $50.000 The Society sent a notable series of expeditions into Peru to investigate the traces of the Inca race. Their discoveries form a large share of our knowledge of a civilization waning when Pizarro first set foot in Peru. THE Society also had the honor of subscribing a substantial sum to the expedition of Admiral. Peary, who discovered the North Pole. NOT long ago The Society granted $25.000, and in addition $75,000 was given by individual members to the Government when the congressional appropriation for the purpose was insufficient, and the finest of the giant sequoia trees of California were thereby saved for the American people. THE Society is conducting extensive explorations and excavations in northwestern New Mexico, which was one of the most densely populated areas in North America before Columbus came, a region where prehistoric peoples lived in vast com munal dwellings and whose customs, ceremonies, and name have been engulfed in an oblivion. THE Society also is maintaining expeditions in the unknown area adjacent to the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, and in Yunnan, Kweichow, and Kansu, China-all regions virgin to scientific study. Copyright, 1926, by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., in the United States and Great Britain. CONTENTS Amazon, Father of Waters, The: The Earth's Mightiest River Drains a Basin of More By COLONEL FITZHUGH LEE MINNIGERODE – Beauty of the Bavarian Alps, The. Color insert. XVI plates----- Boyhood of Sir Walter Raleigh. Supplement, May, 1926. Conquest of Mount Logan, The: North America's Second Highest Peak Yields to the Intrepid Attack of Canadian Climbers. By H. F. LAMBART, B. Sc., D. L. S., Deputy Leader of the Mount Logan Expedition.... Exploring the Atlantic Seaboard with a Color Camera. Color insert. XVI plates. First Natural-Color Photographs from the Arctic, The: Color insert. XVI plates-‒‒‒‒ Fishing for Pearls in the Indian Ocean. By BELLA SIDNEY WOOLF__ Land of Egypt, The: A Narrow Green Strip of Fertility Stretching for a Thousand Miles London (England) from a Bus Top. By HERBERT COREY__. Man's Feathered Friends of Longest Standing: Peoples of Every Clime and Age Have Lavished Care and Affection Upon Lovely Pigeons. By ELISHA HANSON. Marvels of Mycetozoa. Color insert. XVI plates. Marvels of Mycetozoa: Exploration of a Long Island Swamp Reveals Some of the Secrets of the Slime Molds, Dwelling on the Borderland Between the Plant and Animal Measuring the Sun's Heat and Forecasting the Weather: The National Geographic Society Motor-Coaching Through North Carolina. By MELVILLe Chater_. Naturalist with MacMillan in the Arctic, A. BY WALTER N. KOELZ, Ph. D., Department On the Trail of the Air Mail: A Narrative of the Experiences of the Flying Couriers Who Relay the Mail Across America at a Speed of More than 2,000 Miles a Day. By LIEUTENANT J. PARKER VAN ZANDT, U. S. Army Air Service.. Pigeons of Resplendent Plumage. Color insert. XII plates. Recent Bequests by Members of the National Geographic Society- Road to Wang Ye Fu, The: An Account of the Work of the National Geographic Society's Central-China Expedition in the Mongol Kingdom of Ala Shan. By FREDERICK R. Rothenburg (Germany), The City Time Forgot. By CHARLES W. BECK, Jr.‒‒‒‒‒‒ Rothenburg (Germany), The City Time Forgot. Color insert. VIII plates-- Round About Bogotá: A Hunt for New Fruits and Plants Among the Mountain Forests of Colombia's Unique Capital. By WILSON POPENOE, Agricultural Explorer, U. S. Scenes in the Celestial Republic. Insert. 16 illustrations___ PAGE 445 532 271 III 475 485 299 I Singapore, Crossroads of the East: The World's Greatest Mart for Rubber and Tin Was in Recent Times a Pirate-haunted, Tiger-infested Jungle Isle. By FREDERICK SIMPICH 235 Through the Deserts and Jungles of Africa by Motor: Caterpillar Cars Make 15,000-Mile Transylvania and Its Seven Castles: A Motor Circuit Through Rumania's New Province of Racial Complexity and Architectural Charm. By J. THEODORE MARRINER, Ph. D., Secretary of Embassy of the United States of America__ Transylvania and Its Seven Castles. Insert. 16 illustrations. AN ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED INDEX. ENTRIES IN CAPITALS REFER TO ARTICLES AND INSERTS Agricultural Explorer: A Hunt for New Fruits Agriculture, Egypt's source of natural wealth is Altitude: Mount Logan, Canada. Am Dafok swamp, Africa.... ..669, 676-677, 698 Amadas, Philip: English navigator., Amaryllis show: Washington, D. C.... (color EARTH'S MIGHTIEST RIVER DRAINS A BASIN OF MORE THAN 2,700,000 SQUARE Amazon River: Exploring the Valley of the Ama- zon in a Hydroplane. By Capt. Albert W. Amazon River System......ill. 362-370, 373, 375, 376 378, 380-384, 386, 395. 404, 406, 407, 409 410, 413, 418, 419, 446, 448, 452, 453, 462 Amazonia, Report on: U. S. Navy lieutenants.... 446 Ambach, Floating islands of: Africa. Amenhotep III, King of Egypt: Statues.. . ill. 281 American Fantail (Pigeons). American Revolution, Tea and the. Amoy, China, References to.... Amphibian airplane, U. S. Navy: Greenland (color Anaconda, or sucurijú (snake): Amazonia....460-461 Anacostia Naval Air Station: Pigeon lofts. .ill. 94, 95 Anacreon (Green poet) sang of pigeons.. Andean zone: Fruits and vegetables. .131-132 Alagadico, Settlement of: Brazil. 452, 457 |