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The National Geographic Magazine 



from the recent expedition of the Duke of 

 Abruzzi to Mount Ruwenzori, in equatorial 

 Africa, may be received in time for the ad- 

 dress. 



Friday, November 22, 1907— "Through the 

 Deserts of Lower California, Mexico." Mr 

 E. W. Nelson, of the Biological Survey. Mr 

 Nelson vi'ill describe a recent trip through this 

 unexplored section of America for the United 

 States Biological Survey. The most remark- 

 able desert vegetation in the viforld, seen m 

 Lower California, will be shown on slides. 



Friday, November 29, 1907 — "The Native 

 Peoples of the Congo." Dr Frederick Starr, of 

 the University of Chicago. Author of "Strange 

 Peoples," "The Truth about the Congo," etc. 

 Illustrated. 



Friday, December 6, 1907— "The Panama 

 Canal." Illustrated with moving pictures of 

 the work. Mr C. L. Chester. 



Friday, December 13, 1907— "The Land of 

 the Incas." Mrs Harriet Chalmers Adams, 

 author of "The City that was Exchanged for 

 New York," "East Indians in the New World," 

 in the National Geographic Magazine for 

 June and July, 1907. Illustrated. 



December 14, 1907— Annual Banquet. The 

 New Willard. 



Friday, December 20, 1907— "The Second 

 Peace Conference at The Hague." Hon. John 

 W. Foster, formerly Secretary of State. 



Friday, January 3, 1908— "The Geography of 

 Mars." Percival Lowell, LL.D., Director of 

 the Lowell Observatory, of Flagstaff, Arizona. 

 Illustrated. 



Friday, January 10, 190S— "Two Thousand 

 Miles on Muleback through the Andean Won- 

 derland." Hon. John Barrett, Director of the 

 International Bureau of American Republics. 

 Illustrated. 



Friday, January 17, 1908— "A Camel Trip in 

 the Salt and Sand of Chinese Turkestan." 

 Mr Ellsworth Huntington, of Yale University 

 author of "The Pulse of Asia." Mr Hunting- 

 ton was a member of the recent expedition of 

 the Carnegie Institution to Central Asia and 

 Turkestan, and had unusual opportunities to 

 study this interesting region. Illustrated. 



Friday, January 24, 1908— "The Pelicans of 

 America : An Account of Field Studies of the 

 White Pelican in the Western States and in 

 Northwest Canada, and of the Brown Pelican 

 in Florida." Mr Frank M. Chapman, of the 

 American Museum of Natural Historv. Illus- 

 trated. 



_ Friday, January 31, 1908— "The Conserva- 

 tion of Our Natural Resources." Mr Gilford 

 Pinchot, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service. 



Friday. February 7, 1908— "South Africa: 

 The Natives and the Mines." Mr Gardiner F 

 Williams, author of "The Diamond Mines of 



South Africa" and for many years General 

 Manager of the De Beers Diamond Mines, 

 Kimberley. Illustrated. 



Friday, February 14, 1908— "The Deep- 

 water Route from Chicago to the Gulf and its 

 Connections." Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, Mem- 

 ber of Congress from Louisiana and President 

 of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. 



Friday, February 21, 1908— Hon. George 

 Shiras, 3rd, of Pittsburg, has accepted the in- 

 vitation of the National Geographic Society to 

 address the Society on some of his experiences 

 in hunting wild game with the camera. Illus- 

 trated. 



Friday, February 28, 1908— "Holland's War 

 with the Sea." Prof. J. Howard Gore. Illus- 

 trated. 



Friday, March 6, 1908— "The Missions of 

 California." Hon. Joseph R. Knowland, Mem- 

 ber of Congress from California. 



Friday, March 13, 1908— "Arizona— The 

 Egypt of the New World." Mr Frederick 

 Monsen. Mr Monsen describes not only the 

 ancient ruins, but the country as it is today, 

 with its Indian tribes, Spanish-Mexican settle- 

 ments, and American towns. The wonderful 

 Snake Dance of the Hopis will be shown. 



Friday, March 20, 1908— "Perisa— Past and 

 Present." Dr A. V. Williams-Jackson, of Co- 

 lumbia University. Illustrated with unusual 

 pictures taken by Professor Jackson on exten- 

 sive journeys through the ancient kingdom. 



Friday, March 27, 1908— "The Geography of 

 the Sea." Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, 

 U. S. Navy. 



Friday, April 3, 190S— "Cathedrals, Mosques, 

 and Temples of the World." Hon. O P 

 Austin, Chief U. S. Bureau of Statistics. Il- 

 lustrated. 



inland waterways 

 Several technical meetings to consider our 

 inland waterways, and particularly the Mis- 

 sissippi and its tributaries, are being arranged. 



BOOK REVIEW 



The Savage South Seas. Painted by Norman 

 H. Hardy. Described by E. Way Eklington. 

 Pp. 204, 6H. by 9 inches. Illustrated with 68 

 full-page pictures in colors. New York : 

 Macmillan Co. $6.00. 



The beautiful illustrations printed in this 

 volume give an admirable idea of the people 

 and life in British New Guinea, in the Solomon 

 Islands, and among the New Hebrides. Mr 

 Hardy lived for some time in that fascinating 

 part of the world and presents a realistic pic- 

 ture of the rich color of the South Seas. The 

 volume is one of a series published by Adam 

 and Charles Black, of England, describing the 

 different parts of the world, each volume in 

 the series being illustrated with many colored 

 pictures. 



