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distinguished Secretary, Dr. J. Seott Keltie, LL.D. The very 

 atmosphere of the place was geographical in the midst of the 

 50,000 volumes, 128,000 maps and more than 40,000 photographs. 

 We received invitations both to the annual meeting and to the 

 dinner in the evening, but I was able to accept only the former, 

 and found it an interesting function including the presentation of 

 awards by the President the Rt. Hon. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, 



VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. 



to a number of persons who had distinguished themselves as 

 geographers or travelers. In connection with the annual dinner 

 that I had been unable to attend, I found that I had been expected 

 to meet several distinguished members, but the most important, 

 Sir Everard Im Thurn invited me to dine with him a few days 

 later, when I found this distinguished traveler and former Gov- 

 ernor of Fiji was chairman of a commission to revise the nomen- 

 clature of the Pacific islands, and it was gratifying to find that the 

 Index to the Pacific Islands, published by the Bishop Museum, 

 was likely to be of use in this behalf. 1 



The next evening Mr. Wilson and I dined with the Council 

 of the Royal Anthropological Institute before the regular meeting, 



1 The Fijian club shown in Fig. 24, now in the Bishop Museum, is a pleas- 

 ant reminder both of Sir Everard and his labors in Fiji. 



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