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for medals and scholarships are solicited, and identification with 
the Society by membership and personal effort is suggested. 
The Society already comprises among its active workers a 
considerable number of geographic scientists, who have given 
liberally of their time and ‘efforts with a view of stimulating 
public interest in geographic education. The Society is a work- 
ing one, and in its efforts to exercise an educational influence 
over the whole of the United States, feels justified in asking lib- 
eral support from public-spirited citizens. The Society numbers 
nearly eleven hundred members, and has active representatives 
in every state and territory. 
All members are earnestly requested to take a special interest 
in this subject and to bring it to the attention of the school 
superintendents and teachers in their vicinity. Additional cir- 
culars may be obtained of the committee as given below. 
General A. W. Greely, United States Army, Dr T. C. Menden- 
hall, President Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Professor 
W. B. Powell, Superintendent of Public Schools of the District 
of Columbia, constitute the committee charged with the award 
of the prizes for 1895. 
The Committee on Prizes also desire to announce that in con- 
nection with the essays submitted to the Society last year on the 
river systems of the United States that Miss Cora Combs, of the 
high school at Chariton, [owa, received honorable mention on 
the unanimous recommendation of the judges. 
