Lecturers OSCAR P. AUSTIN Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C.; Professor of Commerce and Statistics, George Washington University; Secretary National Geographic Society; author of Manufacturing System of the World; Steps in our Territorial Expansion; etc. ISAAC M. RUBINOW, A. B. Statistician Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C. WILLET M. HAYS, M. Agr. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Secretary American Breeders' Association. WILLIAM G. JORDAN Formerly Secretary of the Governors' Conference, Washington, D. C.; Formerly Editor Ladies' Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post; author of The Kingship of Self Control; The Crown of Individuality; etc. CHARLES F. THWING, LL. D., S. T. D. President of Western Reserve University; author of History of Education in the United States since 1865; History of Higher Education in America; etc.; associate editor Bibliotheca Sacra. HENRY CLEWS, LL.D. Banker, New York City; author of Fifty Years in Wall Street; The Wall Street Point of View. WILLIAM P. TRENT, A. M., LL. D., D. C. L. Professor of English Literature, Columbia University; author of History of American Literature; Southern DAVID Y. THOMAS, Ph. D. Professor of History and Political Science, University of Arkansas. WILLIAM E. DODD, Ph. D. Professor of American History, University of Chicago; formerly Professor of History, Randolph- 28 X 28 6 JAMES WILFORD GARNER, Ph. D. Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois; author of Reconstruction in Mississippi; etc. JAMES MORTON CALLAHAN, A. M., Ph. D. Professor of History and Political Science, University of West Virginia; author of Confederate Diplomacy; Evolution of Seward's Mexican Policy; American Relations in the Pacific and Far East; etc.; editor West Virginia Studies in American History. Lecturers (Continued) WALTER L. FLEMING, A. M., Ph. D., LL. D. Professor of History, Louisiana State University; author of Documents Relating to Reconstruction; Reconstruction of the Seceded States; Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama; Documentary History of Reconstruction; etc.; associate editor Historians History of the World; The South in the Building of the Nation; etc. SOLOMON S. HUEBNER, M. S. Professor of Insurance and Commerce, Wharton School of Commerce and Finance, University of Pennsylvania. ALEXANDER F. CHAMBERLAIN, A. M., Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Clark University; editor Journal of American Folk-Lore; department editor American Anthropologist; author of The Child—A Study in the Evolution of Man; etc. WILLIAM H. GLASSON, Ph. D. Professor of Economics, Trinity College; joint editor South Atlantic Quarterly: author of History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States. MARION M. MILLER, Litt. D. Formerly Assistant Professor of English, Princeton University; editor of The Nineteenth Century ‹nd After; etc. HERBERT N. CASSON Author of American Telegraph and Telephone Systems; The Romance of Steel; The Romance of the Reaper; etc. JOHN MOODY Author of The Truth About the Trusts; etc. WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW Editor of the Publications of the International Bibliophile Society. AMOS KIDDER FISKE, A. M. Associate Editor New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin; author of The Modern Bank; etc. LYMAN HORACE WEEKS Historian and genealogist; author of Development of Industrial Organization in the United States; Volume 1 of the Legal and Judicial History of New York; joint compiler and editor with Edwin M. Bacon of An Historical Digest of the Provincial Press. SERIES ONE LECTURES ONE TO FOUR The United States and Its Aboriginal Inhabitants 1. Description of the United States and Its Possessions 2. The Origin, Habitats and Characteristics of the Indians 3. The Indians Past and Present and Their Influence upon the Development of European Civilization in the United States 4. The Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers THE UNITED STATES THE UNITED STATES AND ITS POSSESSIONS Historic development-The formation of the various States from territory acquired -Non-contiguous territory The States and Territories, their area, population, chief towns, etc.-Population by State at each census-Topography-Hydrography-Climate-Flora and Fauna-Geology—Mineralogy. ETTING aside the early, and more or less mythical, voyages of discovery attributed to the Icelanders and their attempts to colonize the new world, of which no precise historic data is available, nor do any definite traces of their occupation remain, we first tread on firm ground in 1492, when Columbus launched into the unknown seas and landed on an island of the Bahamas, thus making known to Europe the existence of new lands beyond the Atlantic. Fired by his example, other voyagers sailed to the West and made notable discoveries. The Cabots, sailing under the auspices of the English government, in 1497-98 discovered the New England shore; Ponce de Leon, in the service of Spain, in 1512, discovered Florida; Verrazzano, in the service of France, in 1524 discovered the coast of North Carolina, sailing north as far as Cape Breton. The Spaniards founded a settlement at St Augustine in 1565 and gave the name of Florida to North America, France called it Canada, or New France; while England, by virtue of the discoveries of the Cabots, claimed the entire northern part of the continent. After several abortive attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh and others to found colonies in Virginia, the London Company and Plymouth Company were granted charters by James I. to colonize that part of North America lying between the 34th and 45th parallels of latitude and extending 100 miles inland, and the territory between the 38th and 41st parallels was included in both grants. In 1620 the 40th parallel was established as the dividing line of the territory of the rival companies. In 1607 the London Company established the colony of Jamestown, forming the first stable colony of Virginia. In 1614, Captain John Smith, who had left the Jamestown colony, explored the coast of the Plymouth Company and gave it the name of New England. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers, or Puritan Separatists, of England, sailed from Plymouth and founded a colony at Plymouth, New |