WASHINGTON, D. C.

JUDD & DETWEILER, PRINTERS

1901

211860

CONTENTS

The Influence of Submarine Cables upon Military and Naval Supremacy; by GEORGE O.

SQUIER....

The Indian Tribes of Southern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and the Adjoining Islands;

by J. B. HATCHER....

Location of the Boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica; by ARTHUR P. DAVIS..

The Nicaragua Canal..............

The Tsangpo; by JAMES MASCARENE HUBBARD..

Recent Contributions to our Knowledge of the Earth's Shape and Size by the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey; by C. A. SCHOTT.

Explorations in Central East Africa..

Geographic Notes......

The Principles Underlying the Survey of the Bottom of the Ocean for an All-American

Trans-Pacific Cable to the Philippines and the Orient; by E. W. LITTLEHALES..

An Around-the-World American Exposition; by O. P. AUSTIN.

The Causes that Led up to the Siege of Pekin; by W. A. P. MARTIN..

Singan-the Present Capital of the Chinese Empire; by JAMES MASCARENE HUBBARD..

The Midnight Sun in the Klondike; by ALICE ROLLINS CRANE..

The Northern Lights; by ALICE ROLLINS CRANE....

Japan and China—Some Comparisons; by HARRIE WEBSTER.

Geographic Notes...

Death of Colonel Hilder; [W J MCGEE].

The Origin of Yosemite Valley; by HENRY GANNETT

Geographic Names...

Proceedings of the National Geographic Society.

Abyssinia―The Country and People; by OSCAR T. CROSBY..

89

The Old Yuma Trail; by W J MCGEE.

103

The Sea Fogs of San Francisco......

108

Geographic Facts from Report of the Taft Philippine Commission..

114

The Philippine Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition; by D. O. NOBLE HOFFMAN...

Geographic Notes.....

119

123

Advances in Geographic Knowledge during the Nineteenth Century; by A. W. GREELY.

Mexico of Today; by DON JUAN N. NAVARRO.

143

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The Latin-American Constitutions and Revolutions; by JOHN W. FOSTER.

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