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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1908, Vol. 5 Activities of the Society, 50-54, 116 - 120, 193-199. Anderson, Dr. Tempest, The Eruptions of Vesuvius. Address by, on, 195. Bell, Laura, Impressions of the Canadian Rockies. Address by, on, 195. Cook, Dr. Frederick A., The Conquest of Mt. Mckinley. Address by, on, 116. Gilchrist, Charles, The Ascent of Ixtaccihuatl. Notice of, by, 120. Grenfell, Dr. Wilfred, Life in Labrador. Address by, on, 118. Hawes, C. H., The Amur River and the Island of Sakhalin. Address by, on, 51-52. Lawson, Andrew C The San Francisco Earthquake. Address by, on, 193. Peary, R. E., Field \vork of the Peary Arctic Club. Address by, on the, 52 - 54. Powers, Dr. H. H., A Pilgrimage in Greece. Address by, on, 110. Schiller, Mrs. Charles, Impressions of the Canadian Rockies. Ad dress by, 011, 195. Agriculture in Virginia, 240-248. Alaska, Settlements and Climate of Seward Peninsula, Philip S. Smith, 82-92. Alaska, Yakutat Bay, Second Expedition to, R. S. Tarr, 1-14. Alkalai, soils, composition of, 155; reclamation of, 156-158; vegetation of, 155-156. Amundsen, Capt. Roald, Auard of the Elisha Kent Kane Medal to, 196. Amur River, The, and the Island of Sakhalin. C. H. Hawes, address by, on, 51 - 52. Appalachians, of Virginia, agriculture of, 247; character of 227; climate, of, 232. Argentine, distribution of people in, 185, 187. Arid lands, dry farming in, 158 - 163; reclamation of, 158. Arizona, A Recent Volcano in the San Francisco Mountain Region, Douglas Wilson Johnson, 146-151. Atrevida glacier, Alaska, 4. 5. 6. 12. Bennett, Helen C., Kingston, the Capital of Jamaica. As it was and is. 73-81. Blue Ridge, of Virginia. Agriculture of, 244; character of. 225; climate of. 232. Book Notes and Reviews, 55 - 64, 121-130. 201-210. Abhedananda, Swami, India and Her People. Notice, 121. Allen, Grant. Florence. Rc'z-iczt', 55. Archer, F. B., The Gambia Colony and Protectorate. Raine, 55. Arthur, Richard, Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht. Review, 201. Baddeley, J. B., Ireland - North and South. Notice, 56. Baedeker, Karl. The Rhine. Notice, 201. Canada. Notice. 201. Great Britain. Notice, 56. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
