Includes: The Milliennial City by Ralph A. Graves; Devil-fishing in the Gulf Stream by John Oliver La Gorce; Sight-seeing in School by Jessie I. Burrall; Who Shall Inherit Long Life? By Alexander Graham Bell; The Azores: Transatlantic Aviators’ Half-way House by Arminius T. Harberle and A Map of the New Germany As Provided in the Peace Conference.

National Geographic has been published continuously since 1888, nine months after the foundation of the Society itself. The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. It was initially a scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members and currently it reaches the hands of 40 million people each month. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900–01, 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.