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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



MRS GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD 



Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Mrs 

 Gardiner Greene Hubbard adopted by the 

 Board of Managers of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society at a special meeting held at 

 Hubbard Memorial Hall October 23, 1909. 



THE death of Mrs Gardiner Greene 

 Hubbard is to the National Geo- 

 graphic Society a great, an irreparable, 

 loss, and to each member of the Board of 

 Managers comes as a personal bereave- 

 ment. Her broad and constant interest 

 in the work of the Society, apparent 

 during the decade in which her husband, 

 Gardiner Greene Hubbard, served as its 

 President, has since his death on De- 

 cember 11, 1907, been its greatest stim- 

 ulus to renewed activity in the work to 

 which he devoted so many years, and for 

 the conduct of which he, twenty-one 

 years ago, became the Society's first 

 President. Her personal interest in its 

 work in behalf of scientific geography 

 and diffusion of geographic information 

 among the people, her attendance upon 

 its public meetings during the long years 

 of its activities, and her individual recog- 

 nition of the work performed by others 

 in its behalf have been an inspiration to 

 the officers of this Society, the members 

 of the Board of Managers, the speaker 

 upon the platform, and the editor at his 

 desk, while her splendid gift of a build- 

 ins: which became at once a home for the 

 Society and a memorial to its founder 

 and first President, now becomes of 

 added interest as a memorial of her own 

 generosity and a practical aid in the 

 diffusion of information to all parts of 

 the country and to all quarters of the 

 world. 



THE NORTH POLE 



THE Board of Managers of the 

 National Geographic Society, at a 

 meeting held at Hubbard Memorial Hall 

 November 4, 1909, received the following 

 report : 



The sub-committee to which was re- 

 ferred the task of examining the records 

 of Commander Peary in evidence of his 



having reached the North Pole, beg to 

 report that they have completed their 

 task. 



Commander Peary has submitted to 

 this sub-committee his original journal 

 and records of observations, together 

 with all his instruments and apparatus, 

 and certain of the most important of the 

 scientific results of his expedition. These 

 have been carefully examined by your 

 sub-committee, and they are unanimously 

 of the opinion that Commander Peary 

 reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. 

 They also feel warranted in stating that 

 the organization, planning, and manage- 

 ment of the expedition, its complete suc- 

 cess, and its scientific results, reflect the 

 greatest credit on the ability of Com- 

 mander Robert E. Peary, and render him 

 worthy of the highest honors that the 

 National Geographic Society can bestow 

 upon him. 



Henry Gannett. 



C. M. Chester. 



O. H. TlTTMANN. 



The foregoing report was unanimously 

 approved. 



Immediately after this action the fol- 

 lowing resolutions were unanimously 

 adopted : 



Whereas, Commander Robert E. Peary 

 has reached the North Pole, the goal 

 sought for centuries, 



Whereas, This is the greatest geo- 

 graphical achievement that this Society 

 can have opportunity to honor, therefore 



Resolved, That a special medal be 

 awarded to Commander Peary. 



Resolved, That the question of whether 

 or not any one reached the North Pole 

 prior to 1909 be referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Research with instructions to 

 recommend to the Board of Managers a 

 sub-committee of experts who shall have 

 authority to send for papers or make 

 such journeys as may be necessary to in- 

 spect original records, and that this action 

 of the Society be communicated at once 

 to those who may have evidence of im- 

 portance. 



