Excerpt from Bulletin of the American Bureau of Geography, Vol. 1 For the trifling expense of freight and postage every school can Obtain a considerable collection of valuable illustrative material. 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.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...with the want of rain, the rapid and abundant growth of plants and animals, the overpowering heat of day and the dews of night, and the jungle or the desert. To have the means of describing the different regions of the earth more particularly, the teacher should proceed with a series of object lessons on their productions. Thus, the lion, elephant, camel, tiger, wolf, bear, hyena, kangaroo, buffalo, reindeer, dog, sloth, serpent, whale, shark, eagle, vulture, ostrich, etc., are, for geographical purposes, so many types. So in the vegetable world are the palm, olive, the breadfruit, the vine, the cotton-plant, the tea-plant, the coffee-plant, the sugarcane, rice, maize, cinnamon, cedar, mahogany, and the like. Children should be encouraged to make collections of such things as can be used in these lessons. It is the custom in many schools to make exchanges of products between states or countries, and the old-fashioned product chart is not only an ornament to the schoolroom but also a means of cultivating an interest in this too often dry and uninteresting subject. So with respect to man and his habits would be a series on the articles of food, clothing and building. During this course of instruction the only maps used are blackboard sketches or sandtable sketches and pictures--pictures of objects such as have been alluded to, and pictures of scenes typical of countries. The map of Arabia for the primary school should be a desert scene, exhibiting the general features of the desert and the sky, the caravan, the camel, and the Arab himself in his native costume. A map of Egypt would represent its river and its pyramids. India would be pictured by its rice fields, its jungles with their fierce inhabitants, and its mountain passes with their...

Excerpt from Bulletin of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, 1852, Vol. 1 Society, it would be unwise to load it with that responsibility; and a room was procured in the New York University. 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.

Excerpt from Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 1901, Vol. 33 There are very insufficient grounds indeed for the statement of F iske that it may have been committed to writing already in the middle of the t1th century. 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.

Excerpt from Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York, 1905, Vol. 37 A large number of parties have been employed during the past year in all of the arid States and Territories on reconnaissance and preliminary surveys. Numerous petitions have been received from all parts of the arid regions, requesting that investigations be made of projects believed to exist in each locality, and much of the reconnaissance work has been undertaken in compliance with these requests. Only the most important of these surveys are noted here. 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.

Excerpt from Bulletin (Formerly Journal) Of the American Geographical Society, 1914, Vol. 46 The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904 - American I and Weather of San Diego, cab-animal Commur Illustrated in the Chicago Region - Geology of the Adventures in the African Wilde - Tire Fetish Folk 0! Lo. Tripolitaine Interdite. Ghadames - l'eritrea 'em und Nil - turkestan-tlre Land of the rime Popp, Indischen Archipel - Tire Progressing Phliippinea - Tlr monwealth, 1889-1900 - New Zenland and Adjacen Papua - The Belief in Immortality and the Worshi Forth - La Race Slave - Jahrbuch d'es k.k. Hydmgra. 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.

Excerpt from Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. 6 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.