PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



(Abstract of Minutes) 



December 30, 1892. Special meeting. 



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

 bard in the chair. Attendance, 600. 



Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, United States Navy, delivered a 

 lecture on the results of his recent expedition to Greenland, 

 exhibiting during the course of his address a large number of 

 views. 



January 6th, 1893. 7^h meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. 

 President Hubbard in the chair. Attendance, 80. 



The report of the Auditing Committee appointed at the an- 

 nual meeting was read and approved. 



General A. W. GreeW read a paper on '' Rainfall Tjqies of the 

 United States," illustrating his remarks b}^ a colored map and 

 several charts. Printed in this volume, pp. JfO-58. 



Mr H. G. Ogden spoke on " Methods of geographic and toi:)0- 

 grapliic Surveying." Remarks were afterward made b}^ Messrs 

 Baker, Wilson, Littlehales, and Gilbert Thompson. 



January 13, 1893. Special meeting. 



Meeting held in the Builders' Exchange Hall. Attendance, 

 400. 



The President, Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard, delivered 

 the annual address on " Discoverers of America." Printed in 

 this volume, pp. 1-20. At the conclusion Professor Alex. Melville 

 Bell read Tennyson's poem on the return of Columbus. 



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