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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

HENRY WHITE, Vice-President

O. P. AUSTIN, Secretary
GEO. W. HUTCHISON, Associate Secretary
EDWIN P. GROSVENOR, General Counsel

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ORGANIZED FOR "THE INCREASE

TO carry out the purposes for which it was founded thirty-eight years ago, the National Geographic Society publishes this Magazine. All receipts are invested in the Magazine itself or expended directly to promote geographic knowledge.

AND DIFFUSION OF GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE" 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.

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 phenom-
enon. Four expeditions have followed and the ex-
traordinary scientific data resulting given to the world.
In this vicinity an eighth wonder of the world was
discovered and explored-"The Valley of Ten Thou-
sand 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

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. All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as Second-Class Mail Matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 1, 1918.

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