| GEOGRAPHIC: | MAGAZINE. |i DECEMBER, 1911 CONTENTS The Palms Supplement [GPS A| The Sacred City of the Sands maaxk upwarouonnson [QC XA cmterane Wer 2 LuLDFTRATIONE ro j Populous and Beautiful Szechuan ROLLIN Y. cHaMneRun | E on AND Mab Wren 27 teisvarary Present Conditions in China. Wer (2 taLoareanor })| Making the Fur Seal Abundant Wenn i tuustaiariones || The Arbitration Treaties x mer of ren Eovire0 Si Br tm Panu LIAM HOWARD-TAPT PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL WASHINGTON, D.C,NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL SIXTEENTH AND M STREETS, WASHINGTON, D.€. WENRY GANNETT eissipewt 0) H. TITTMANN + WICE-PaESlonet Q.P.AUSTIN, «= secectanr JOHN JOY EQSON ‘Taeakunen GILBERT M,GROSVENOR, pintcronanneoon fF 8. EICHELBERGER assy. TREAmURI JOWN OLIVER LA GORCE, Assistant eprron BOARD OF MANAGERS: 1909-1911 igio-t912 yon t-ises » PeAUSTIN Hexy P, Bout ALEXANDER GHAIAMIRELL Chet s, WareanotStaletics — Vice-Pecaldent Am. 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