PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL 

 GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Popular Meetings. 



November p, ipoo. — Prof. Willis L,. 

 Moor^in the chair. Dr. M. H. Saville, 

 of the American Museum of Natural 

 Histor}', New York city, delivered an 

 illustrated address, "The Ancient Cit)'- 

 of Mitla, Mexico." 



November 23, igoo. — Mr. Marcus 

 Baker in the chair. Gen. A. W. Greely , 

 Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A., delivered 

 an illustrated address, "A trip through 

 Alaska." 



December J, ipoo. — President Graham 

 Bell in the chair. Dr. W. A. P. Martin, 

 President of the Imperial University at 

 Pekin, delivered an address, ' ' The Siege 

 of Pekin." 



December 18, rgoo. — Mr. G. K. Gilbert 

 in the chair. Capt. Ewart S. Grogan, 

 the first white man to cross Africa from 

 south to north, delivered an illustrated 

 address, " From Cape to Cairo." 



December 2 1, 1 900. — President Graham 

 Bell in the chair. Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 Forester, U. S. Department of Agricult- 

 ure, delivered an illustrated address, 

 "The Proposed Appalachian Park." 



Ja7iuary ^, igoi. — President Graham 

 Bell in the chair. Mr. Joseph Stanley- 

 Brown delivered an illustrated address, 

 ' ' The Franciscan Missions of Southern 

 California." 



January 18, igoi. — President Graham 

 Bell in the chair. Mr. Arthur P. Davis 

 delivered an illustrated address, "The 

 Isthmian Canal Routes." 



Technical Meetings. 



December 1 4., I goo. — President Graham 

 Bell in the chair. Papers were read as fol- 

 lows: ' ' Winter Precipitation in Relation 

 to Irrigation, ' ' by Dr. H. C. Frankenfield ; 

 "The Survey for an All- American Cable 

 to the Philippines and the Orient," by 



G. W. lyittlehales; "American Arc 

 Measures," by C. A. Schott. 



Januajy 11, igoi. — President Graham 

 Bell in the chair. Papers were read as 

 follows: ' ' The Stenometer as a Distance • 

 Measurer," by W. J. Peters; "The 

 Establishment of Compass Deviation 

 Range-marks on Delaware Breakwater, ' ' 

 by D. B.Wainwright ; "A Topographic 

 Cycle on Glaciers," by G. K. Gil- 

 bert. 



Announcement of Meetings. 



February i, igoi. — " Mexico, Her 

 Characteristics and Recent Progress," 

 by Dr. Don Juan N. Navarro, Mexican 

 Consul General at New York. 



February 15, igoi. — "Explorations 

 in Abyssinia," by Otis T. Crosby. 



March r, igoi. — " The Recent Famine 

 in India," by Gilson Willets. 



These lectures will be delivered in 

 the Congregational Church, 9th and G 

 streets, at 8 p. m. 



Technicai. Meetings for the reading 

 of papers and discussion will be held in 

 the hall of the Cosmos Club on the even- 

 ings of February 8 and 22. 



The committee having in charge the 

 formation of the programs for the tech- 

 nical meetings of the Society desire to 

 invite members to report to the Secre- 

 tary of the Society the titles of com- 

 munications bearing upon geographical 

 research that are available for presenta- 

 tion to the Society during the months" 

 of February, March, April, and May, 

 1901. 



The subject of the Lenten Course of 

 lectures for this year is ' ' The Countries 

 of Asia. ' ' The first lecture of the series 

 will be at 4. 20 p. m. , Tuesday afternoon, 

 February 26, in the Columbia Theater, 

 1 2th and F streets, Washington, D. C. 



