MINUTES OF THE CONFERENCE 

 F. H. NEWELL AND ELIZA E. SCIDMORE, Secretaries 



The sessions were opened in the hall of Washington, Art 

 Institute building, Chicago; at 10 o'clock a m, July 27, 1893. 

 There were present about four hundred individuals, including 

 delegates and invited guests. 



The Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard, President of the Na- 

 tional GEOGRAPHIC Society, was called to the chair as presiding 

 officer of the Conference, and Mr F. H. Newell was appointed 

 Recording Secretary. 



Several communications from societies and individuals were 

 laid before the Conference. 



The Royal Geographical Society, through its Secretary, Mr J. 

 Scott Keltic, expressed its sincere regret that it could not be 

 represented by a member of its Council in addition to the regu- 

 lar delegate. Sir C. S. Gzowski. 



The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, through its Secre- 

 tary Colonel Fred. Bailey, offered its congratulations to the Con- 

 ference and expressed its cordial good wishes for the success of 

 so important an assemblage. 



Dato Sri Amar cl'Rajah, of the Johore Commission, regretted 

 that his unexpected departure for Europe prevented him from 

 reading a paper on Johore. On the part of the Johore Commis- 

 sion he expressed the hope to be able shortly to j)i'esent the first- 

 complete map of Johore ever published. 



Baron de Marajo, delegate of the Instituto Historico Geog- 

 rafico y Ethnografico de Rio de Janeiro, expressed the very lively 

 interest of himself and the society he represented in the Confer- 

 ence, and i^resented nine volumes of geographic researches, etc, 

 published by his society. While he could not then speak on 

 the geography of Brazil, he promised a memoir thereon for future 

 publication. 



Senor Graciano A. de Azambuja, Commissioner from Brazil, 

 congratulated the Conference on its meeting, and promised for 

 publication a paper on the development of southern Brazil. 



M E. Levasseur, Membre de I'Institut, delegate from the 

 Societe de Geographic of Paris, wrote from New York that im- 



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