President Davidson, Portrait.

Map showing the Tracks and Landfalls of Bering and

Chirikof on the Northwest Coast of America.

NOTES

South Polar Expeditions.

Russian Expedition to Headwaters of Hoang Ho.

Bishop Expedition in Hawaii.

German Expedition to Site of Ancient Babylon.

Cape Nome, Origin of the Name.

Deep Sea Photography.

Halladotherium and Samotherium Boissiori.

Supply of Caoutchouc.

Gulf Stream and Japanese Warm Stream.

U. S. Steamer "Albatross" among the Fauna of the Hawaiian and Philip-

pine Island Waters.

Survey of the Philippine Archipelago.

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