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Congress deal more with the present 

 than the past. Today the United States 

 Government spends annually several 

 millions of dollars for scientific research, 

 nearly every dollar of which goes to- 

 w^ard geographic progress. The Smith- 



the Biological Survey, the Hydrographic 

 Office, the Bureau of Forestry, the great 

 bureaux of Statistics and Commerce of 

 the Treasury Department and of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and the Di- 

 vision of Military Information of the 



Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. Army 

 Gold Medalist of the Roj-al Geographical Society and of the Societe de Geographic de Paris 



sonian Institution, with its great mu- 

 seums and splendid Bureau of Eth- 

 nology ; the Geological Survey, the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Weather 

 Bureau, the Fish Commission, the Cen- 

 sus Bureau, the General I^and Office, 



War Department, are among the institu- 

 tions engaged in promoting geographic 

 research. 



The National Geographic Society of 

 America, the host of the next Interna- 

 tional Geographical Congress, represents 



