PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIEl^^ 



(^Abstract of Minutes.) 



March 6, 1891. J^Qtli meeting. 



Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. Vice- 

 President Hay den in the chair. Attendance, 50. 



Captain E. C. Hore, master mariner, delivered an address on 

 "A narrative of ten years' work and travel in the African lake 

 region." Abstract entitled " The Heart of Africa " irrinted in this 

 volume., pp. 238-2^3. 



March 13^ 1891. Specicd meeting. . 



Meeting held in the Lecture Room of the National Museum. 

 Vice-President Ogden in the chair. Attendance, 850. 



Captain E. C'. Hore repeated his former lecture with additions. 

 Abstract jDviiited in this volume, pp. 21+3-24-7. 



March 20, 1891. 50th meeting. 



IMeeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Clul^. JNfr. 

 G. K. Gilbert in the chair. Attendance, 35. 



Vi-ce-President Greely read a paper on " The cartography and 

 observations of Bering's first voyage." The paper Avas discussed 

 by Messrs Dall, Blodgett, Littlehales, and Vice-President Hay- 

 den. Printed, in this volume, pp. 205-230, pi. 21. 



Mr. J. Stanley-Brown in'esented a paper on "Auriferous 

 sands from Yakutat bay." Printed in this volume, pp. 196-198. 



Mr. I. C. Russell read a paper on " The geology of the Mount 

 St. Elias region, Alaska." The paper was discussed by Messrs 

 Gilbert (who had resigned the chair to Vice-Presiclent Hayden), 

 Dall, Johnson, and Russell. Incorporated in the memoir forming 

 pp. 53-20Jf, pis. 2-20, of this volume. 



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