OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

1891

GARDINER G. HUBBARD,President
HERBERT G. OGDEN
EVERETT HAYDEN
A. W. GREELY
C. HART MERRIAM
HENRY GANNETT
Vice-Presidents
CHARLES J. BELL,Treasurer
MARCUS BAKER
C. A. KENASTON
Secretaries
ROGERS BIRNIE, JR.
G. K. GILBERT
G. BROWN GOODE
WILLARD D. JOHNSON
W J MCGEE
T. C. MENDENHALL
W. B. POWELL
B. H. WARDER
Managers

PRINTERS
JUDD & DETWEILER
WASHINGTON

ENGRAVERS
MOSS ENGRAVING CO.
NEW YORK

CONTENTS.


(Page numbers, when given, indicate an earlier issue of Volume 3.)

South America: Annual Address by the President, GARDINER G. HUBBARD (page 1)

Geography of the Land: Annual Report by Vice-President HERBERT G. OGDEN (page 31)

Geography of the Air: Annual Report by Vice-President A. W. GREELY (page 41)

An Expedition to Mount St. Elias, Alaska; by ISRAEL C. RUSSELL (page 53)
Introduction—The Southern Coast of Alaska (page 55)
Part I—Previous Explorations in the St. Elias Region (page 58)
Part II—Narrative of the St. Elias Expedition of 1890 (page 75)
Part III—Sketch of the Geology of the St. Elias Region (page 167)
Part IV—Glaciers of the St. Elias Region (page 176)
Part V—Height and Position of Mount St. Elias (page 189)
Appendix A—Official Instructions governing the Expedition (page 192)
Appendix B—Report on topographic Work; by MARK B. KERR (page 195)
Appendix C—Report on auriferous Sands from Yakutat Bay; by J. STANLEY-BROWN (page 196)
Appendix D—Report on fossil Plants; by LESTER F. WARD (page 199)
Index (page 201)

[The Cartography and Observations of Bering's First Voyage]; by A. W. GREELY

[Height and Position of Mount St. Elias]; by ISRAEL C. RUSSELL

[The Heart of Africa]; by E. C. HORE

[Report of Committee on Exploration in Alaska]

Notes—[La Carte de France, dite de l'Etat Major], par M. J. COLLET

[Polar Regions]

[The Crossing of Tibet]

[Statistics of Railways in United States]

[Index to volume III]

[Title-page and Imprimatur of Board of Managers]

[Contents and Illustrations]

[Publications of the National Geographic Society]

[Proceedings of the National Geographic Society]

[Officers of the Society for 1892]

[Members of the Society]

ILLUSTRATIONS.


(Page numbers, when given, indicate an earlier issue of Volume 3.)

Plate 1—South America (map) (page 1)
2—Sketch Map of Alaska (page 57)
3—Map of the St. Elias Region, after La Pérouse (page 59)
4—Map of the eastern Shore of Yakutat Bay, after Dixon (page 61)
5—Map of the St. Elias Region, after Malaspina (page 64)
6—Map of Bay de Monti, after Malaspina (page 64)
7—Map of Disenchantment Bay, after Malaspina (page 67)
8—Sketch Map of St. Elias Region, by MARK B. KERR (page 74)
9—The Hubbard Glacier (page 99)
10—Wall of Ice on eastern Side of Atrevida Glacier (page 105)
11—View on Atrevida Glacier (page 105)
12—Entrance of an Ice Tunnel (page 106)
13—Deltas in an abandoned Lake Bed (page 106)
14—A River on the Lucia Glacier (page 106)
15—Entrance to a glacial Tunnel (page 107)
16—View of Malaspina Glacier from Blossom Island (page 120)
17—Moraines on Marvine Glacier (page 123)
18—View of the Hitchcock Range from near Dome Pass (page 144)
19—View of Mount St. Elias from Dome Pass (page 146)
20—View of Mount St. Elias from Seward Glacier (page 175)
[21—Carte Générale des Découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte (1752)]

RUSSELL: Figure 1—Diagram illustrating the Formation of Icebergs (page 101)
2—View of a glacial Lakelet (page 120)
3—Section of a glacial Lakelet (page 120)
4—Diagram illustrating the Formation of marginal Crevasses (page 128)
5—Crevasses near Pinnacle Pass (page 130)
6—Snow Crests on Ridges and Peaks (page 143)
7—Faulted Pebble from Pinnacle Pass (page 171)
8—Faulted Pebble from Pinnacle Pass (page 171)