The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XXII, No. 11, November, 1911
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1911. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. [4 page advertisement for the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica inside front cover and 8 pages of advertisements], pages 965-1060, [and 24 pages of advertisements] plus covers. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Cover worn, torn, missing part at bottom front, and is partially separated from the spine. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900–1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the magazine's first editor.
This issue includes: Glimpses of Japan by William W. Chapin with 24 pages of photographs in color, The Kingdom of Flowers--China by Ernest H. Wilson, with 24 illustration, Tripoli: A Land of Little Promise by Adolf L. Vischer with illustrations and a map, The Great Rainbow Natural Bridge by Joseph E. Pogue with Illustrations, and The Mysteries of the Desert and National Geographic Society Notes.
Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name. He studied at Birmingham Municipal Technical School in the evenings, receiving the Queen's Prize for botany. In 1897 he began work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he won the Hooker Prize for an essay on conifers. He then accepted a position as Chinese plant collector with the firm of James Veitch & Sons, who were eager above all to retrieve the dove tree, Davidia involucrata. " After six months at Veitch's Coombe Woods Nursery, Wilson traveled west towards China, Wilson collected for two years in Hubei Province, reaching isolated mountain valleys with an intrepid spirit that has made him legendary, before returning to England in April 1902 with seed of 305 species, and 35 Wardian cases of bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers, many of which Veitch introduced into Western commerce, as well as dried herbarium specimens, representing some 906 plant species. In 1903 Wilson discovered the Regal lily in western Sichuan along the Min River. It was his third shipment of bulbs that successfully introduced the Regal Lily into cultivation in the United States.
In subsequent years he became a collector for Sargent at the Arnold Arboretum, and made further expeditions to China in 1907, 1908, and 1910, as well as to Japan (1911-1916), where he collected 63 named forms of cherry blossom. He returned to Asia in 1917-1918, exploring in Korea and Formosa. Upon return to the Arnold Arboretum in 1919 he was appointed Associate Director. Three years later he set off for a two-year expedition through Australia, New Zealand, India, Central and South America, and East Africa. In 1927 he became Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum.
Joseph E. Pogue was an Associate Geologist, United States Geological Survey, Formerly Assistant Curator Division of Mineralogy and Petrology, United States National Museum, Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
Rainbow Bridge National Monument is administered by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, southern Utah, United States. Rainbow Bridge is often described as the world's highest natural bridge. The span of Rainbow Bridge was reported in 1974 by the Bureau of Reclamation to be 275 feet (84 m), but a laser measurement in 2007 has resulted in a span of 234 feet (71 m).[citation needed] At the top it is 42 feet (13 m) thick and 33 feet (10 m) wide. Located in the rugged, isolated canyons at the feet of Navajo Mountain, Rainbow Bridge was known for centuries by the Native Americans who have long held the bridge sacred. Ancient Pueblo People were followed much later by Paiute and Navajo groups who named the bridge Nonnezoshe or "rainbow turned to stone." Several Native American families still reside nearby. On May 30, 1910, U.S. President William Howard Taft used presidential proclamation to designate Rainbow Bridge National Monument. Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey were among the first visitors to make the trek by foot and horseback from Oljeto or Navajo Mountain. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: National Geographic, Japan, Flowers, China, Tripoli, Rainbow Natural Bridge, Desert, William W. Chapin, Ernest H. Wilson, Adolf L. Vischer, Joseph E. Pogue
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