The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 18

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National Geographic Society, 1907
Indexes kept up to date with supplements.
 

Contents

How Long will the Coal Reserves of the United States Last? by MARIUS R CAMPBELL
129
Efforts to Obtain Greater Energy from Coal
138
Wolves
145
The NATIONAL
148
Archæology in the Air by Eliza R Scidmore
151
Railway Routes in Alaska by ALFRED H BROOKS Geologist in Charge of Alaskan
165
The Maoris of New Zealand by GILBERT H GROSVENOR
198
A Recent Report from the Doubtful Island Region by JAMES D HAGUE
205
The High Sierra
213
The NATIONAL
216
an account of the work of the Reclamation Service by C
217
Salton Sea and the Rainfall of the Southwest by ALFRED J HENRY Professor of
244
Railway Routes in Alaska By Alfred H Brooks of the U S Geological
245
Women and Children of the East
248
Notes on Central America
272
The Giant Spider Crab from Japan
280
The Rock City of Petra by FRANKLIN E HOSKINS
283
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287
Reclaiming the Swamp Lands of the United States by HERBERT WILSON U S Geo
292
The Revolution in Russia by William EleROY CURTIS
302
164
305
Some of Our Immigrants by GILBERT H Grosvenor
317
The Black RepublicLiberia by Sir HARRY JOHNSTON and U S Minister LYON
334
Oreboat Unloaders
343
Echoes of the San Francisco Earthquake by ROBERT E C STEARNS
351
Bighorn Mountains by N H DARTON of the U S Geological Survey
354
Our Fish Immigrants by HUGH M SMITH Deputy U S Commissioner of Fisheries
385
The Possibilities of the Hudson Bay Country Illustrated
393
Fishes that Build Nests and Take Care of Their Young
400
Notes on the Remarkable Habits of Certain Turtles and Lizards by H A LARGELAMB
413
Commercial and Financial Statistics of the Principal Countries of the World by O
420
Notes
428
Seventyfive Days in the Arctics by MAX FLEISCHMAN Life Member of the National
439
Substance of an address to the National Geographic Society by ROBERT
446
Saint Stephens Fête in Budapest by DE WITT CLINTON FALls
548
Strange Sights in Faraway Papua by A E PRATT
559
BoliviaA Country Without a Debt by Señor Y CALDERON Minister from Bolivia
573
Our Heralds of Storm and Flood by GILBERT H GROSVENOR
586
The Work in the Pacific Ocean of the Magnetic Survey Yacht Galilee by L A BAUER
601
Hunting the Grizzly in British Columbia JOSEPH Wendle
612
Hunting the Grizzly in British Columbia By Joseph Wendle
615
A Strange and Remarkable Beast
620
The NATIONAL
620
Tirnova the City of Hanging Gardens by FELIX J KOCH
632
Geologists in China
640
Koyasan the Japanese Valhalla by ELIZA R SciDMORE
650
An Experimental Boat of Dr Alexander Graham Bell driven by Aerial Propellers
671
Dr Bells Tetrahedral Tower Illustrated
672
The Deepwater Route from Chicago to the Gulf by GILBERT H GROSVENOR
679
The Marvelous Prosperity of the South
685
Published by the National Geographic Society
686
Queer Methods of Travel in Curious Corners of the World by O P AUSTIN Chief
687
Planting Fishes in the Ocean by GEORGE M BOWERS U S Commissioner of Fish
715
Hunting Big Game in Portuguese East Africa
723
A Visit to Lonely Iceland by PERLEY H NOYES
731
The Land of Fire by Jon Stefansson
741
Meetings of National Geographic Society
750
The NATIONAL
750
MadeiraOn the Way to Italy by DAVID FAIRCHILD
751
A Simple Method of Proving that the World Is Round by ROBERT MARSHALL BROWN
771
The Modern Alchemist by JAMES WILSON Secretary of Agriculture
781
Helping the Filipino Fisheries
795
The Uses of Nuts as Food
800
American Explorations in Egypt
801
The Truth About the Congo Illustrated
807
The Truth about the Congo
811
Geographical Books of the Year Illustrated
822
Proposed Change in the ByLaws of the National Geographic Society
825

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