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Resolved, That in view of the able 

 seamanship, pertinacious effort, and able 

 management of Captain C. A. Bartlett, 

 displayed during the Peary Arctic Expe- 

 dition of 1908-1909, and that he reached 

 the high latitude of 87 40' north, he be 

 awarded a medal by the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. 



At a meeting of the Board of Mana- 

 gers November 8, the Committee on Re- 

 search of the Society recommended that 

 the personnel of the committee to con- 

 sider whether the pole was discovered be- 

 fore 1909 should be entirely different 

 from that of the committee which passed 

 on the Peary records. Upon their recom- 

 mendation the Board appointed the fol- 

 lowing committee : 



J. Ploward Gore, formerly Professor 

 of Mathematics, George Washington 

 University, and author of several works 

 on surveying and geodesy. 



Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury, U. S. 

 N.. who was for ten years in charge of 

 the hydrographic office of the U. S. 

 Navy, did important work investigating 

 the gulf stream currents, was for several 

 years Assistant Chief of the Bureau of 

 Navigation of the Navy Department, and 

 later Chief of Staff of the North At- 

 lantic Squadron. 



Dr C. Willard Hayes, Chief Geologist 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, one of 

 the pioneer explorers of Alaska and of 

 many sections of the Rocky Mountains. 



PROGRAM OF MEETINGS OF THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 



SOCIETY 1909-10 



Friday, 8. 15 p. m., November 12— "The North 

 Pole." Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. 

 Navy. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., November 19— "In Savage 

 New Guinea." Mr Thomas Barbour, of Harvard 

 University. An account of the strange people 

 and extraordinary scenery of this little-known 

 island by the author of the two fascinating 

 articles, "Notes on New Guinea," recently pub- 

 lished in the National Geographic Magazine. 

 Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., November 26 — "A Rollick- 

 ing Ramble in Ireland." Mr Seumas McManus, 

 author of "A Lad of the O'Friel's," "Through 

 the Turf Smoke," "Donegal Fairy Stories," 

 "Ballads of a Country Boy," etc. Tllustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., December 3 — "Children of 



Many Lands." Mr O. P. Austin, Secretary of 



the National Geographic Society and Chief of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Statistics. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., December 10 — "Spain and' 

 Her People." Dr Charles Upson Clark, of 

 Yale University. The speaker will describe 

 the romance and grandeur and present condi- 

 tions in the country. Illustrated. 



Wednesday, 7.30 p. m., December 15 — An- 

 nual Banquet. 



Friday, S.15 p. m., December 17 — "The Un- 

 tamed Girdle of Palestine." Mr Ellsworth 

 Huntington, of Yale University. A two weeks' 

 expedition on the Dead Sea with a canvas 

 boat, a trip to the famous Rock City of Petra, 

 by way of the desolate Ghor, and an excur- 

 sion to the little-known Negen, south of Beer- 

 sheba. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., January 7 — "Manchuria ; 

 the Antung Mukden Railway; the funeral of 

 the late Empress Dowager, November 9, 1909." 

 Miss Eliza R. Scidmore, author of "China — the 

 Long Lived Empire," "Jinrikisha Days in 

 Japan," etc. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., January 14 — (The sub- 

 ject will be announced later.) Mr John Bar- 

 rett, Director International Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Republics. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., January 21 — "The Life of 

 the Nest; Studies of the Nesting Habit of 

 Birds." Frank M. Chapman, author of "Camps 

 and Cruises of an Ornithologist," "Bird Studies 

 with a Camera," etc. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8. 15 p. m., January 28 — "The Otto- 

 man Empire." Rear Admiral Colby M. 

 Chester, U. S. Navy. From June, 1908, to 

 May, 1909, inclusive, Admiral Chester lived in 

 Constantinople or was traveling throughout 

 Asia Minor. He was thus a witness of the 

 revolution and of the beginning of the new 

 era in Turkey. Illustrated. 



Friday, 8.15 p. m., February 4 — "Moun- 

 taineering in a New Switzerland." Professor 



