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National Geographic .
December 1918, Vol. 30, No. 6 |
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THE RACES OF EUROPE: An
Account Which Removes the Padlock of Technicality from the Absorbing Story
of the Mixture of Peoples in the Most Densely Populated Continent, by
Edwin Augustus Grosvenor, L.H.D., L.L.D., with 62 Illustrations of Racial
Types (Summary: Because the complexities of the race problem in Europe are
of more vital interest to the world than ever before, the entire December
issue is devoted to the great polyglot of peoples who comprise the
world’s most densely populated continent. Related Subjects:
Anthropology, physical; Ethnology – Europe; Europe.) MAP SUPPLEMENT:
Map of The RACES OF EUROPE and Adjoining Portions of ASIA and
AFRICA, in 19 Colors (Size 20 x 24 Inches) This Map Supplement IS INCLUDED
with this Magazine. Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Gold Medal Flower
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National Geographic . November 1918, Vol. 30, No. 5 |
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Our Friend’s, the
French: An Appraisal of the Traits and Temperament of the Citizens of Our
Sister Republic, by Carl Holliday, with 29 Illustrations
The Price of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: An Appreciation, by Gilbert
Hovey Grosvenor (Summary: Though official tallies are not in, it is
estimated that 1.8 million Frenchmen have died thus far in the Great World
War. Related Subjects: France; World War I.)
The Rebirth of Religion in Russia: The Church Reorganized While Bolshevik
Cannon Spread Destruction in the Nation’s Holy of Holies, by Thomas
Whittemore, with 16 Illustrations
An Important New Guide for Shipping: Navassa Light, on a Barren Island in
the West Indies, is the First Signal for the Panama Canal, by George R.
Putnam, Commissioner of Lighthouses, with 4 Illustrations
Coal, Ally of American Industry: Following the Nation’s Annual Output of
735,000,000 Tons of Fuel from Prehistoric Ages to Its Arrival at
Tidewater, by William Joseph Showalter, with 23 Illustrations (Summary:
William Joseph Showalter delves deep into the anthracite mines of
Pennsylvania, where he gains appreciation for the dirty and dangerous work
endured by an army of American miners. Related Subjects: Coal; Mines and
mining.)
The Spirit of the Geographic, with 4 Illustrations (Summary: Thanks to the
generosity of its members, the National Geographic Society has been able
to fund two wards instead on one, twenty beds instead of ten, at the
American Military Hospital in Neuilly, France. Related Subjects: World War
I.) Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen
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National Geographic . October 1918, Vol. 30, No. 4 |
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Russia’s Orphan Races:
Picturesque Peoples Who Cluster on the Southeastern Borderland of the Vast
Slav Dominions, by Maynard Owen Williams, with 27 Illustrations (Summary:
Maynard Owen Williams undertakes an omnibus survey of the great ethnic
stew pot that comprises Russia’s southern and Asian domains, from the
Cossacks of the southern steppes and the Georgians of the trans-Caucasus
to the Turkomens of Bokhara (Bokhara) and Turkestan (Turkistan). Related
Subjects: Azerbaijan; Baku, Azerbaijan; Bukhara, Uzbek; Central Asia;
Georgia, Republic of (Pre-Revolution); Samarkand, Uzbekistan;
Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, U.S.S.R.; Turkomans;
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Uzbekistan (Pre-Revolution).)
What the War Has Done for Britain, by Judson C. Welliver, with 13
Illustrations (Summary: Britain entered a war to which the enemy had not
challenged her, writes Judson C. Welliver, because she believed she was
doing right. In return Britain has been reborn with a new zeal for
democracy and a new genius for solving human dilemmas. Related Subjects:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; World War I.)
How Canada Went to the Front, by T. B. Macaulay, with 6 Illustrations
(Summary: Canada sees her duty to rally to the defense of Britain as a
privilege, writes T. B. Macaulay, who notes Canada’s sacrifice for
European freedom. Related Subjects: Canada; World War I.)
The Healer of Humanity’s Wounds (American Red Cross), with 16
Illustrations (Summary: Photographs from the front reveal the importance
of the American Red Cross in bolstering the health and spirits of our
heroes in the trenches. Related Subjects: American Red Cross; Red Cross;
World War I.)
An Old Jewel in the Proper Setting: An Eyewitness’s Account of the
Reconquest of the Holy Land by Twentieth Century Crusaders, by Charles W.
Whitehair, with 14 Illustrations (Summary: The conquest of Jerusalem was
an isolated incident in Britain’s Near Eastern campaign. To capture
Palestine from Turkish and German forces, Britain and its colonies have
sent a million men to the Holy Land and Mesopotamia. Related Subjects:
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman; Jerusalem; Palestine; World War I.) Magazine
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National Geographic . September 1918, Vol. 30, No. 3 |
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Ships for the Seven
Seas: The Story of America’s Maritime Needs, Her Capabilities and Her
Achievements, by Ralph A. Graves, with 23 Illustrations
The American People Must Become Ship-minded, by Edward N. Hurley,
Chairman, United States Shipping Board, with 8 Illustrations
Our Industrial Victory, by Charles M. Schwab, Director General, Untied
States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, with 17 Illustrations
(Summary: Second only to America’s military victory to come, writes
Charles Schwab, will be the industrial victory at home, where almost
overnight the U.S. has become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the
world. Related Subjects: Shipbuilding; United States; War industries;
World War I.)
The War and Ocean Geography, by The Editor, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, with
7 Illustrations (Summary: With more ships afloat after World War I than
before, writes the Editor, there will be greater demand for ocean surveys,
and the submarine, an American invention, will be rescued from its ignoble
use and made to serve humanity. Related Subjects: Fishes; Oceanography;
World War I.) Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Old Dutch Cleanser
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National Geographic . August 1918, Vol. 30, No. 2 |
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Bringing the World to
Our Foreign-Language Soldiers: How a Military Training Camp is Solving a
Seemingly Insurmountable Problem by Using the Geographic, by Christina
Krysto, with 4 Illustrations (Summary: At Camp Kearny, California, the
author describes the challenges and rewards of cramming a six-week
language class into three days, using charts and pictures drawn from
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC issues. Related Subjects: California; Education;
Geography education; Kearny, Camp, California; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
magazine - Uses; Training schools; U.S. Army.)
Recent Observations in Albania, by Brig. Gen. George P. Scriven, with 22
Illustrations (Summary: The Albanians - a people regarded as the most
ancient race of southeastern Europe - have a dark history of blood feuds.
Hopeful signs suggest, however, that light is coming to Albania.)
The Ukraine, Past and Present, by Nevin O. Winter, with 14 Illustrations
(Summary: A history of domination - by the Poles, the Lithuanians, and
finally the Russians - has left this land of Cossack traditions a
difficult place to fathom. Part of Russia since the 18th-century,
Ukrainians exhibit a distinct national character that separates them from
their Slavic kin. Related Subjects: Kharkov, U.S.S.R.; Kiev, U.S.S.R.;
Odessa, U.S.S.R.; Ukrainian S.S.R., U.S.S.R.)
The Acorn, a Possibly Neglected Source of Food, by C. Hart Merriam,
Formerly Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, with 8 Illustrations
(Summary: Long valued by the Indian tribes of North America and turned to
by Europeans in times of scarcity, the acorn is highly nutritious and
cooks up into fine bread and other foods. Related Subjects: Acorns; Food;
Indians of North America; Wild foods.)
Our Littlest Ally, by Alice Rome, with 16 Illustrations (Summary: One of
Europe’s smallest nations, and the world’s oldest republic, San Marino
resides amid the peaks of the Italian Apennines like an ancient fortress,
where it has maintained its sovereignty through the turbulence of European
history. Related Subjects: San Marino.)
The British Take Baku, with 1 Illustration (Summary: No military operation
of British forces in the Near East has been of greater importance than the
occupation of Baku, which produces four-fifths of all the oil produced in
Russia. Related Subjects: Azerbaijan; Baku, Azerbaijan; Transcaucasian
Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, U.S.S.R.; Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics; World War I.) Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Williams
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National Geographic . July 1918, Vol. 30, No. 1 |
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New York: The Metropolis
of Mankind, by William Joseph Showalter, with 39 Illustrations
Under the Heel of the Turk: A Land with a Glorious Past, a Present of
Abused Opportunities and a Future of Golden Possibilities, by William H.
Hall, with 14 Illustrations
A Day With Our Boys in the Geographic Wards (Hospitals), by Carol Corey,
with 8 Illustrations (Summary: Visiting the Army hospital at Neuilly, just
outside Paris, the author describes the work supported by the members of
the National Geographic Society, and the brave cheerful spirit in which
American youths endure their wounds. Related Subjects: France; Medicine
and health; World War I.) Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Parker Pens
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National Geographic . June 1918, Vol. 29, No. 6 |
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Cooties and Courage, by
Herbert Corey, with 10 Illustrations (Summary: Only surgeons call them
lice. To everyone else they are cooties. Though hardly a pleasant subject,
they pose a menace to the health and comfort of our soldiers, a menace
that scientists are exerting every effort to minimize. Related Subjects:
France; Lice; Medicine and health; Sanitation; U.S. Army; World War I.)
Hospital Heroes Convict The Cootie (PLEASE NOTE: This article is NOT
listed on the magazine cover. Summary: Thanks to the courage of 66 healthy
American soldiers who volunteered to be injected with lice germ disease
from the front lines, cooties are identified as the culprit behind trench
fever.)
A Battle Ground of Nature: The Atlantic Seaboard, by John Oliver La Gorce,
with 23 Illustrations and Four Maps (Summary: The war between land and
water is the subject of this survey of America’s Atlantic shores, from
the wave-dashed battlements of Maine to the sand-dune ramparts of Florida.
Related Subjects: Atlantic Coast, U.S.; Erosion; Hydrography; Lighthouses;
Sand dunes; United States.)
Prussianism, by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, with 5 Illustrations
(Summary: The secretary of state asserts that we must understand the true
meaning of Prussianism and its desire for world domination, in order to
understand present obstacles to peace. Related Subjects: Germany; World
War I.)
Germany’s Dream of World Domination, By the Editor, Gilbert Hovey
Grosvenor, with 3 Illustrations and Map (Summary: Excerpts of texts by
influential German writers confirm the dream of Pan-Germanism threatening
the globe. Related Subjects: Germany; World War I.)
Aces Among Aces, by Laurence La Tourette Driggs, with 9 Illustrations
(Summary: Constant training and abstinence from alcohol are some secrets
of France’s aerial sharpshooters, the celebrated Cigognes, or Storks,
who daily put their lives on the line. Related Subjects: Aviation; Fonck,
Rene; France; Germany; Italy; McCudden, James Byford; Richthofen, Manfred
Von; United States; World War I.) Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Gold
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National Geographic . May 1918, Vol. 29, No. 5 |
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SMALLER NORTH AMERICAN
MAMMALS: An Intimate Study of the Smaller Wild Animals of North America by
the Foremost Authorities, by Edward W. Nelson, Chief, U. S. Biological
Survey, With 32 Pages in Full Colors from drawings by Louis Agassiz
FUERTES. National Geographic Society Map of the Western Theatre of War,27
x 31 1/4 Is Included. Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Colgate Shaving
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National Geographic . April 1918, Vol. 29, No. 4 |
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The Gem of the Ocean:
Our American Navy, by Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, with
36 Illustrations
Forerunners of Famine, by Frederick C. Walcott, Of the U. S. Food
Administration, with 9 Illustrations
An Appeal to Members of the National Geographic Society, by Gilbert Hovey
Grosvenor, with 2 Illustrations (Summary: Noting that they have already
sacrificed their time, their wealth, and the lives of their loved ones to
war, the Society asks its members to pledge themselves now to eat neither
wheat bread, wheat cereals nor pastry made of flour until the new wheat
crop is harvested. Related Subjects: Conservation; Food; World War I.)
What Is It to Be An American?, by Hon. Franklin K. Lane, with 8
Illustrations (Summary: The real story of America, says the secretary of
the interior, has not been so much its conquests and technological
triumphs but its great experiment in attempting to gather together people
of different races, creeds, conditions, and aspirations. Related Subjects:
Americanization; Immigration - United States; United States.)
Forming New Fashions in Food, by David Fairchild, with 11 Illustrations
(Summary: Experimenting with rats, scientists are determining the
nutritional values of certain foods, like potatoes. The use of dried
vegetables may have more far-ranging value for society than merely as a
wartime measure. Related Subjects: Agriculture; Canning; Food; Vegetables;
World War I.)
The National Geographic Society in War Time, by Major-General A. W. Greely,
U. S. Army, with 3 Illustrations (Summary: Maj. General A. W. Greely, of
the U.S. Army, gives an account of the contributions made in 1917 by the
National Geographic Society to the war effort. Related Subjects: National
Geographic Society – History; World War I.)
The Symbol of Service to Mankind: The Greatest Humanitarian Movement of
Modern Times Originated in a Practical Attempt to Meet a Practical Need
with a Practical Remedy (Red Cross), by Stockton Axson, National
Secretary, American Red Cross, with 11 Illustrations. Magazine Back Cover
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National Geographic . March 1918, Vol. 29, No. 3 |
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The Health and Morale of
America’s Citizen Army: Personal Observations of Conditions in Our
Soldier Cities by a Former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army
and Navy, by William Howard Taft, with 22 Illustrations
Voyaging on the Volga Amid War and Revolution: War-time Sketches on
Russia’s Great Waterway, by William T. Ellis, with 16 Illustrations
The Isle of Frankincense (Socotra, South Yemen), by Charles K. Moser,
Formerly United States Consul-General to Aden, Arabia, with 11
Illustrations (Summary: Socotra, once a primary source of frankincense, is
now a British protectorate languishing in the Indian Ocean. If, as legend
tells, Socotran women once lured seamen, siren-like, to their shores,
their charms have sadly deserted them since. Related Subjects: Cliff
dwellers; Frankincense; Socotra, South Yemen; South Yemen; Perfume.)
A Unique Republic, where Smuggling is an Industry (Andorra), by Herbert
Corley, with 17 Illustrations (Summary: Andorra, a cheerfully outlaw state
on the crest of the Pyrenees, is described by the author from the vantage
of the tiny town of Llivia, where the stranger suffers from the unjust
suspicion that he is an officer of the law. Related Subjects: Andorra;
France; Smuggling; Spain.)
Plain Tales from the Trenches, by Carol K. Corey, with 7 Illustrations
(Summary: Over a tea table in a soldiers home in Paris, a group of Tommies,
Canucks, Scotties, and Aussies fresh back from the front tell of their
happiness to be alive. Related Subjects: France; World War I.) Magazine
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National Geographic . February 1918, Vol. 29, No. 2 |
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This listing does
include the Pictorial Supplement.
The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes: An Account of the Discovery and
Exploration of the Most Wonderful Volcanic Region in the World, by Robert
F. Griggs, Director of the National Geographic Society Katmai Expeditions
of 1915, 1916, and 1917, with 87 Illustrations
Helping to Solve Our Allies’ Food Problem: America Calls for a Million
Young Soldiers of the Commissary to Volunteer Service in 1918, by Ralph
Graves, with 23 Illustrations (Summary: Faced with the necessity for
producing millions of pounds of additional foodstuffs to feed the armies
on the battlefront and in the training camp, Americans organize numerous
volunteer groups. Related Subjects: Food; Pigs; World War I.)
Billions of Barrels of Oil locked Up in Rocks, by Guy Elliott Mitchell, Of
the United States Geological Survey, with 10 Illustrations (Summary: Due
to the war, demand for petroleum is ever increasing, while the author
notes that it is doubtful that any new oil regions comparable with those
in Texas and California will be discovered. A possible answer to coming
shortages may reside in the oil-laden shales of the American Rockies, and
several eastern states. Related Subjects: Oil; Shale oil; United States)
Shopping Abroad for Our Army in France, by Herbert Corey, with 6
Illustrations (Summary: By provisioning America’s troops with supplies
bought in Europe, the risks and delays of comparable shiploads of things
sent across the Atlantic have been sidestepped, says the author, who
describes the great achievements abroad of the U.S. governments’
Purchasing Board. Related Subjects: France; Pershing, John J.; U.S. Army;
World War I.) Magazine Back Cover Advertisement Colgate's Shaving Stick
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National Geographic . January 1918, Vol. 29, No. 1 |
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America’s Part in the
Allies’ Mastery of the Air, by Major Joseph Tulasne, Chief of the French
Aviation Mission to America, with 2 Illustrations
Aces of the Air, by Captain Jacques De Sieves, Of the French Aviation
Service, with 2 Illustrations
Flying in France, by Captain Andre De Berroeta, Of the French Aviation
Service, with 13 Illustrations
Tales of the British Air Service, by Major William A. Bishop, V. C., S. S.
O., M. C., with 12 Illustrations
Italy’s Eagles of Combat and Defense: Heroic Achievements of Aviators
Above the Adriatic, the Apennines, and the Alps, by Kindness of General
Pasquale Tozzi, Chief of the Italian Military Mission, with 9
Illustrations
The Italian Race: An Appreciation. By Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Summary:
The Editor, noting that the Italians began fighting the invaders from the
North a thousand years before the discovery of America, reminds us of the
great gifts to mankind bequeathed by the Italians. Related Subjects:
Italy.)
Building America’s Air Army, by Lieutenant-Colonel Hiram Bingham, Signal
Corps, U.S.A., Chief of the Air Personnel Division in the Office of the
Chief Signal Officer of the Army, with 43 Illustrations.
The Life Story of an American Airman in France: Extracts from the Letters
of Stuart Walcott, Who, Between July and December, 1917, Learned to Fly in
French Schools of Aviation, Won Fame at the Front, and Fell Near Saint
Souplet, by Stuart Walcott, with 9 Illustrations
The Future of the Airplane, by Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary, U. S. Navy
(Summary: The future of transportation itself will soon be changed by the
airplane, which some predict will enable one to travel from London to New
York in only two days. Related Subjects: Aviation; Bell, Alexander
Graham.)
Germany’s Air Program, by Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Summary: While
America and her allies deploy their wealth and resources to launch air
fleets into battle, Germany and her vassal nations are equally alert to
the importance of air mastery. Related Subjects: Aviation, Germany; World
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