Xvi | National Geographic Magazine. 
April 13, 1894. Special meeting. 
Builders’ Exchange Hall, 8 pm. President Hubbard in the 
chair. 
Mr H. M. Wilson delivered an illustrated address entitled 
From Bombay to the Himalayas. 
April 19, 1894. Ith meeting. 
Assembly Hall of Cosmos Club,8 pm. Mr Henry Gannett 
in the chair. Attendance, 75. * 
The general topic was The Public Lands of the United States, 
discussed under the following heads and by the following 
speakers: The National Domain, by Mr F. H. Newell; The 
Texas Land System, by Mr R. U. Goode; The Public Lands of 
Idaho, by E. T. Perkins, Jr.; and The Public Domain in its So- 
cial Aspect, by Mr Neate P. Davis. ul he papers were discussed 
by Mr J. B. Thompson and Mr W. A? Croffut. 
April 20, 1894. Field meeting. 
Eighty members and guests attended an excursion to Virginia 
Beach and the Dismal Swamp. Mr G. K. Gilbert and Dr David 
T. Day took charge of the two parties, and in the evening a 
meeting was held at the Princess Anne Hotel, Virginia Beach. 
April 21, 1894. Special meeting. 
National Rifles’ Hall,8 pm. President Hubbard in the chair. 
Attendance, 500. 
Mr meal Hamilton Cushing delivered an ‘llnstiertea lecture 
upon The Geographic Origin and Distribution of the Pueblo 
Indians. 
May 4, 1894. ISth meeting. 
Assembly Hall of Cosmos Club,8 pm. Mr G. K. Gilbert in 
the chair. Attendance, 125. 
Mr Henry Farquhar, in behalf of the excursion party to the 
Dismal Swamp, thanked the committee for the able and efficient 
manner in which the plans were carried out. 
Mr R. T. Hill delivered an illustrated lecture upon The Moun- 
tains of Mexico, and remarks were made by Mr H. M. Wilson 
and Senior Don M. Romero, the Mexican minister. 
