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December 30. 1891. Sipecial meeting. 



Meeting held in the Lecture Hall of the National Museum. 

 President Hubbard in the chair. Attendance, 200. 



Professor Benjamin Sharp of the Acadeni}^ of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made an address upon Peary and 

 the western Greenland expedition. The lecture Avas illustrated 

 by lantern slides from photographs taken on the expedition 

 while along the shores of Greenland and at Peary's camp. 



Jannary 8, 1892. 60th meethuj. 



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

 President Merriam in the chair. Attendance. 150. 



Mr. W J McGee delivered an address on " The Eastern Sierra 

 Madre of Mexico," his lecture being illustrated by lantern slides 

 made from ^photographs taken in the vicinity of Monterey, 

 Saltillo, Matehuala, Miquihuana, Doctor Arroyo, and the haci- 

 enda El Carmen. Professor R. T. Hill described the similarity 

 of topographic features of that region to those of the Great Basin 

 of the United States. 



January 15, 1892. Special meethuj. 



Meeting held in the Lecture Hall of Columbian University. 

 Vice-President Ha5zxlen in the chair. Attendance, 100. 



The President, Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard, delivered his annual 

 address on the subject of '' The Evolution of Transportation." 

 Major J. W. Powell prefaced the President's address by brief 

 introductorv remarks. 



