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hoped it may be found practicable, to 

 hold sessions of the Congress also in 

 other cities : In New York, in conjunc- 

 tion with the American Geographical 

 Society of that city, a portrait of whose 

 honored president, Dr. Seth I^ow, ap- 

 pears on another page ; in Boston, with 

 the Appalachian Mountain Club, and in 

 Philadelphia, Chicago, and probabl}^ in 

 San Francisco and Seattle, in conjunc- 

 tion with the noted geographic societies 

 of these cities. 



The National Geographic Society will 

 hope to offer its guests an attractive 

 series of excursions to points of geo- 

 graphic interest. In the letter of invi- 

 tation the following possible excursions, 

 each one of which would be a geographic 

 lesson, are suggested : 



' ' While it might be premature to sug- 

 gest special excursions to points and re- 

 gions of geographic interest, your atten- 

 tion is asked to the fact that Washington 

 is situated in the midst of natural and 

 cultural features of such character as to 

 appeal to geographic students. Niagara 

 Falls is but a few hours in one direction, 

 the Natural Bridge of Virginia is near 

 at hand in another, and the Mammoth 

 Cave of Kentucky but a short journey 

 in a third direction. The metropoles of 

 eastern United States — Boston, New 

 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Rich- 

 mond — are so near that it would be pos- 

 sible to hold a session in one or more of 

 these cities. 



' ' Chicago is only i , 300 kilometers 

 (23 hours) away, and a session might 

 easily be held there. Denver, the gate- 

 way to the Rocky Mountain region, is 

 within 3,000 kilometers (2^ days), and 

 the Grand Cafion of Colorado, Great 

 Salt Take, and Yellowstone National 

 Park are only a little farther. Even 

 the remotest parts of the country are 

 now easily accessible. California is but 

 4,350 kilometers (3^3 days) from Wash- 

 ington at The Needles and 4,900 kilo- 

 meters (2^ days) at Tos Angeles, while 

 San Francisco, at the Golden Gate, is 

 only a little over four days from the Na- 

 tional Capital. From these points Mt. 

 Shasta and Yosemite Valley are readily 

 accessible, while the notable scenery of 

 the Selkirks and other mountains in 

 Canada , the peaks and glaciers of Alaska , 

 and the picturesque plateaus and his- 

 toric cities of Mexico are also within 

 easy reach, the City of Mexico being 

 only 4,600 kilometers (3^ days) from 

 Washington. 



' ' The members of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society feel that these and other 

 features of geographic interest are 

 worthy the attention of the distin- 

 guished savants accustomed to attend 

 the sessions of the International Geo- 

 graphic Congress, and they would feel 

 highly honored by the occasion of wel- 

 coming their colleagues from beyond 

 the Atlantic to their own field of work 

 and thought." G. H. G. 



PEARY'S WORK IN 1900 AND 1901 



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'^ ■ ^|EARY has circumsledged 

 Greenland, discovered most 

 northern land in the world. 

 Returns 1902 with Pole," says Mr. 

 Bridgman, Secretary of the Peary Arctic 

 Club, in a telegram to the Nationai, 

 Geographic Magazine from Sydney, 

 C. B., September 13, 190 1. 



A detailed statement of Peary's very 

 important work during the past two 

 years follows : 



On April 15, 1900, Peary left Fort 

 Conger, 81° 44' north latitude, and, 

 accompanied by his faithful Henson and 

 five Eskimo, crossed Robeson Channel 

 to the Greenland coast and followed it 



