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THE NATIONAL

GEOGRAPHIC
MAGAZINE

INDEX

January to June, 1926

VOLUME XLIX

PUBLISHED BY THE

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

HUBBARD, MEMORIAL HALL

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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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

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
JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE, Associate Editor
RALPH A. GRAVES
Assistant 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
Sciences

O. P. AUSTIN

Statistician

GEORGE R. PUTNAM

Commissioner U. S. Bureau of
Lighthouses

GEORGE SHIRAS, 3D
Formerly Member U. S. Con-
gress, Faunal Naturalist, and
Wild-game Photographer

E. LESTER JONES

Director U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

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ORGANIZED FOR "THE INCREASE AND DIFFUSION OF GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE"

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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
Than 2,700,000 Square Miles, from Which Came Originally the World's Finest
Rubber. By W. L. SCHURZ, Ph. D., Commercial Attaché, American Embassy, Rio
de Janeiro...

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.
Exploring the Valley of the Amazon in a Hydroplane: Twelve Thousand Miles of Flying
Over the World's Greatest River and Greatest Forest to Chart the Unknown Parima
River from the Sky. By CAPTAIN ALBERT W. STEVENS, U. S. Army Air Service---

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
Through Walls of Desert. By Alfred Pearce DENNIS, Vice-Chairman, U. S. Tariff
Commission

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

Kingdoms. By WILLIAM CROWDER.

Measuring the Sun's Heat and Forecasting the Weather: The National Geographic Society
to Maintain a Solar Station in a Remote Part of the World to Cooperate with
Smithsonian Institution Stations in California and Chile. By C. G. ABBOT, Assistant
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution__

Motor-Coaching Through North Carolina. By MELVILLe Chater_.
Motor-Coaching Through North Carolina. Insert. 16 illustrations_.

Naturalist with MacMillan in the Arctic, A. BY WALTER N. KOELZ, Ph. D., Department
of Zoology, University of Michigan..

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.

WULSIN.

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.

Department of Agriculture__

Scenes in the Celestial Republic. Insert. 16 illustrations___

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AN ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED INDEX. ENTRIES IN CAPITALS REFER TO ARTICLES AND INSERTS

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Agricultural Explorer: A Hunt for New Fruits
and Plants Among the Mountain Forests of
Colombia's Unique Capital. By Wilson Popenoe 127

Agricultural scenes: China..

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Agriculture, Egypt's source of natural wealth is

271-272, 277-278, 282, 283, 289-290, 292,

ill. 273-276

Agriculture: North Carolina..

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Alagadico, Settlement of: Brazil.

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