THE NATIONAL INDEX January to June, 1926 VOLUME XLIX PUBLISHED BY THE WASHINGTON, D.C. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY GEOGRAPHIC ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS HENRY WHITE, Vice-President O. P. AUSTIN, Secretary JOHN JOY EDSON, Treasurer GEO. W. HUTCHISON, Associate Secretary FRED M. BERTHRONG, Assistant Treasurer 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 WILLIAM J. SHOWALTER RALPII A. GRAVES FRANKLIN L. FISHER Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Chief of Illustrations Division J. R. HILDEBRAND, Chief of School Service ORGANIZED FOR “THE INCREASE AND DIFFUSION OF GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE" TO carry out the purposes for which it was discoveries for a large share of our knowledge of a civilization waning when Pizarro first set foot in Peru. founded thirty-eight years ago, the National Geographic Society publishes this Magazine. All re. ceipts are invested in the Magazine itself or expended THE Society also had the honor of subdirectly to promote geographic knowledge. scribing a substantial surn to the expedition of Admiral. Peary who «giscovered the North Pole. ARTICLES and photographs are desired. • For material which the Magazine: danse , Nor long ago. The Society granted $25.000, generous remuneration is made. Contributions 'Should and in addition $75,000 was given by individual be accompanied by an addressed return envelope and members to the Government when the congressional postage. appropriation for the purpose was insufficient, and IMMEDIATELY after the terrific eruption the finest of the giant sequoia trees of California were thereby saved for the American people. of the world's largest crater. Mt. Katmai, in Alaska, a National Geographic Society expedition was THE Society is conducting extensive explorasent to make observations of this remarkable phenomFour expeditions have followed and the ex tions and excavations in northwestern New traordinary scientific data resulting given to the world. Mexico, which was one of the most densely populated areas in North America before Columbus came, In this vicinity an eighth wonder of the world was discovered and explored—“The Valley of Ten Thou region where prehistoric peoples lived in vast com: sand Smokes," a vast area of steaming, spouting munal dwellings and whose customs, ceremonies, and fissures. As a result of The Society's discoveries this wame have been engulfed in an oblivion. has been created a National Monument by proc. lamation of the President of the United States. THE Society also is maintaining expeditions in the unknown area adjacent to the San AT an expense of over $50,000 The Society Juan River in southeastern Utah, and in Yunnan, sent a notable series of expeditions into Peru Kweichow, and Kansu, China-all regions virgin to to investigate the traces of the Inca race. Their scientific study. enon. a are: Copyright, 1926, by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., in the United States and Great Britain. a Page Than 2,700,000 Square Miles, from Which Came Originally the World's Finest 445 Ashley River and Its Gardens, The. By E. T. H. SHAFFER-- Beauty of the Bavarian Alps, The. By Colonel FITZ HUGH 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----- 532 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--- 353 First Natural-Color Photographs from the Arctic, The Color insert. XVI plates---- 300 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 271 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 421 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 Coöperate with Smithsonian Institution Stations in California and Chile. By C. G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution --- Motor-Coaching Through North Carolina. By MELVILLE CHATER.. 475 485 299 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.------ 184 184 of Colombia's Unique Capital. By WILSON POPENOE, Agricultural Explorer, U. S. 127 Scenes in the Celestial Republic. Insert. 16 illustrations--- 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 Trip from Algeria to Madagascar in Nine Months. By Georges-Marie Haardt---- 651 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. I AN ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED INDEX. ENTRIES IN CAPITALS REFER TO ARTICLES AND INSERTS January, PP: 1-126 April, Pp. 353-474 101 12 A Page . ill. 708 III . 452, 460 .....451, 461 532 . ill. 22, 31, 48, 49, 57 514, 519 .451, 455 .440, 453 559 559 559 553, ill. 579 295 Raleigh." Frontispiece, May, 1926. ill. 286 ill. ill. 91 (text) 80 652 271 . 113, 114, ill. 117, 118 651 104 Colombia's Unique Capital. By Wilson Popenoe 127 ill. 230, 231 ill. 273-276 .ill. 504-507 445 50-51 29, 34, 40, 46, 58 By Lieut. J. Parker Van Zandt.. (text) 27, 60 5 44-49, 57, 58, 60 ill. 60 ill. 590 I 22 (color insert) Plate II, 300-317 . ill. 90, 93 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 44-49, 57, 60 506 455 ill. 81 . ill. 208, 209 197 Page (text) 138, 160 .582, 586 454 .. 353 insert) Plate VI, 300-317 by Motor. (From Algeria to Madagascar). By 651 (text) 653, 654 60 459 102-103 127, 137 531 .600, 601 632 649 649 597 ill. 700, 701 479 insert) Plate XVI, 532-549 EARTH'S MIGHTIEST RIVER DRAINS A 445 354 zon in a Hydroplane. By Capt. Albert W. 353 (text) 446 378, 380-384, 386, 395, 404, 406, 407, 409 410, 413, 418, 419, 446, 448, 452, 453, 462 663 36-43, 50-56, 58 .250, 251 86, 87, 90, 107 108-109 587 245, 249 insert) Plate II, 300-317 64 64 .131-132 517 452, 457 insert) XVI plates, 424-441 . ill. 270 269 |
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