X . National Geographic Magazine. 



Jamuiry 20, 1893. I'oih meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. Mr 

 Willits in the chair. Attendance, 50. 



Dr T. C. Mendenhall read a paper on " The use of the Pendu- 

 lum in determining the Figure and Density of the Earth," illus- 

 trating his remarks b}^ diagrams. At the conclusion Mr E. D. 

 Preston made a few remarks. 



Janua,vy 27, 1893. Special meeting. 



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

 Greely in the chair. Attendance, 400. 



Mr Cyrus C. Adams, President of the Department of Geogra- 

 phy of the Brooklyn Institute of Sciences and Arts, gave an il- 

 lustrated lecture on " Recent Results of African Explorations." 



Februarij 3, 1893. 76th meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly. Hall of the Cosmos Club. 

 Vice-President Mendenhall in the chair. Attendance, 55. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Universit}'-, spoke on the 

 " Improvement of geographic Teaching." Printed in this vokime, 

 pp. 68-75. 



February 10, 1893. Special meeting. 



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

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 350. 



Mr Rounsevelle Wildman, United States Consul at Singapore, 

 gave a description of " Malaya and the Sultan of Johore," illus- 

 trating his subject by lantern slides and by a number of curios. 



February 17, 1893. 77th meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. Mr 

 Gilbert in the chair. Attendance, 20. 



The chairman read an announcement of the Loubat prizes 

 offered by Columbia College for the best essays on geographic 

 and other subjects. 



\ Two papers were read on the subject of the evening, " The 

 Geomorphology of the southern Appalachians," one by Mr M. 

 R. Campbell, and the other by Dr C. Willard Hayes. Remarks 

 were made at the close by Messrs Willis, Gilbert, and McGee. 



