xii National Cleo<ji'aphic Mayazlne. 



April 7, 189S. Special meeting. 



Meeting held in the Buiklers' Exchange Hall. President Hub- 

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 300. 



Professor William M. Brewer, of Yale University, gave a de- 

 scription of two visits to Colorado, one in 1869 and the other in 

 1892. 



April i^, 1893. 80th meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. 

 President Hubbard in the chair. Attendance, 100. 



Dr Elliott Coues, of the Smithsonian Institution, gave a de- 

 scription of Lewis and Clark's travels across the American con- 

 tinent, and exhibited the original note books of the expedition. 



April 21., 1893. Special meeting. 



Meeting held in the Builders' Exchange Hall. President Hub- 

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 300. 



Mr Courtnay De Kalb read a paper on " Nicaragua and the 

 unexplored Regions of the Mosquito Coast." 



April 28, 1893. 81st meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. 

 President Hubbard in the chair. Attendance, 125. 



The following proposed amendment to the By-laws was given 

 its first reading by General A. W. Greely : 



In article IV, last paragraph, change last sentence to read : 

 " Five members of the Board of Managers shall constitute a quo- 

 rum at regular meetings and nine members at special meetings." 



The first paper of the evening was by Dr T. C. Mendenhall, 

 entitled '' The geographic Position and Height of Mount Saint 

 Elias." Printed in this volume, pp. 63-67. 



Reverend Sumantrao Vishna Karmarkar, a native of Bomba}^, 

 then spoke of the origin and condition of castes in India. 



Mr Margus Baker and General A. W. Greely discussed the evi- 

 dence of the probable existence of certain islands off the north- 

 ern coast of Alaska. Printed in this volume, pp. 76-88. 



Mr J. S. Diller described a recently extinct volcano in Lassen 

 county, California. Printed in this volume, pp. 93-96. 



Mr F. H. Newell read a paper on the condition of member- 



