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It will also be followed at the station 

 established bj* the Argentine Republic 

 on State^i Island. Cooperation in all 

 other sciences with the English expedi- 



tion and all other expeditions to be sent 

 out by other States has been regulated 

 in the best manner b}- the division into 

 spheres of work. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY CALEN- 

 DAR, 1901-1902 



AT a meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers, held on September 28, the 

 Lecture Committee reported an 

 attractive provisional program for the 

 season of 1 901 -1902. It provides for 

 continuing the three classes of meetings, 

 viz : Technical Meetings, to be held in 

 the Assembly Hall of Cosmos Club ; 

 Popular Lectures, to be. delivered in the 

 First Congregational Church, and After- 

 noon Lectures, to be delivered in Colum- 

 bia Theater. 



A program for the earlier part of the 

 season will be issued to members about 

 October 10. 



Subject to transposition in dates, the 

 calendar proposed for November and 

 December is as follows : 



November i . — Technical Meeting: Sym- 

 posium on the Growth and Pros- 

 pects of the Society ; President 

 Graham Bell, followed by Prof. 

 Angelo Heilprin and others. 



November S. — Popular Meeting : Near- 

 est Lands to the Pole ; H. L. Bridg- 

 man, Vice-President, Arctic Club. 



November 15. — Technical Meeting: 

 The Lost Boundary of Texas ; 

 Marcus Baker, Cartographer U. S. 

 Geological Survey'. 



November 22. — Popular Meeting : In- 

 terior Borneo ; Dr. A. C. Haddon, 

 of Oxford, England. 



November 29. — -Technical Meeting: 

 Subjects to be announced later. 



December 6. — Popular Meeting : A 

 Winter in Ellesmereland ; Dr. Rob- 

 ert Stein. 



December 13. — Technical Meeting : Sub- 

 jects to be announced later. 



December 20. — Popular Meeting : A 

 Half-centur3''s Immigration ; Hon. 

 E. F. McSweeney, Assistant Com- 

 missioner of Immigration. 



December 27. — Holida}' vacation. 



Lectures in contemplation for later 

 Popular Meetings are : Conditions and 

 Prospects in the Philippines, by Gen. 

 A. W. Greely ; The Trans-Siberian 

 Railwav, bv Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill ; 

 Cliff - Dwellings of Mesa Verde, by 

 Mrs. John Hays Hammond ; The Appa- 

 lachian Forest Reserve, by Hon. James 

 Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture ; The 

 Chinese Problem ; Sweden Toda^', b}^ 

 William Eleroy Curtis ; The Nicara- 

 gua n Canal ; The Great Pj^ramid, by 

 Prof. W. Edwin Priest ; Colombia ; 

 Pacific Cables, Actual and Proposed ; 

 The Danish Islands ; Japanese Art and 

 Literature, together with other topics 

 rendered timely by circumstances. 



The general subject for the After- 

 noon, or Lenten, Lectures is " Problems 

 of the Pacific." The dates and special 

 topics proposed are : 



Wednesday, Februar)' 19. — Japan. 



Wednesda3^ February 26. — Hawaii. 



Wednesday, March 5. — Polynesia. 



Wednesday, March 12. — iVustralia and 

 New Zealand. 



Wednesday, March 19. — Physical Feat- 

 ures of the Great Oceanic Basin. 



Wednesday, March 26. — The Pacific as 

 a Factor in World-Growth. 



