MEETINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 SOCIETY, 1914-1915 



November 13. — ■"Belgium and Her People." 

 By Dr. James Howard Gore, Professor Emeri- 

 tus of George Washington University. 



November 20. — "Conquest of the Great Rose 

 and Other Glaciers of India." By Mrs. F. 

 Bullock Workman and Dr. W. Hunter Work- 

 man. 



November .?/. — "The Strength and Virtues 

 of the German People and Empire." By 

 Roland G. Usher, Professor of History in 

 Washington University, of St. Louis, author 

 of "Pan-Germanism," etc. 



December 4. — "France, Our Sister Repub- 

 lic." By Arthur S. Riggs. 



December 11. — "Sunny Italy." By Mr. B. R. 

 Baumgardt. 



December 18. — "The Fringe of Asia." By 

 Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams. 



January 8, 1915, 4 p. m. — Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall. Annual meeting of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. 



January 8. — "The Romance of Reclamation." 

 By Mr. C. J. Blanchard. The "See America 

 First Movement" will doubtless send hundreds 

 of thousands of Americans to the beauty spots 

 and wonderlands of the United States during 

 the coming year. From the wonderful forma- 

 tions of Glacier National Park to the strange 

 ruins of Casa Grande, New Mexico, and from 

 the playgrounds of New England to the Golden 

 Gate of California, there are scattered many 

 of these places whose beauty and whose charm 

 equal anything to be found in Europe and 

 surpass the imaginations of those who have 

 not seen them. 



January 15. — "The Race with Death in Ant- 

 arctic Blizzards." By Sir Douglas Mawson, 

 K. B. D. Sc. B. E., leader of the Australasian 

 Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914. 



January 22. — "Mohammedan Lands and Peo- 

 ples." By Rev. Dr. Charles Wood. 



January 26. — "England, the Oldest Nation of 

 Europe." This subject of immeasurable inter- 

 est will be dealt with by an authority whose 

 study of England as the leader in the world's 

 commerce, as well as the greatest colonizer of 

 any time, will render it a most popular and 

 valuable one. 



January 2g. — "Peoples, Places, and Problems 

 in Mexico." By Prof. Leslie C. Wells, of 

 Clark College. 



Pebrnary 5. — "The Balkans — Rumania, 

 Servia. and Bulgaria." By Dr. Albert Bush- 



nell Hart, Professor of History in Harvard 

 University, author of "Practical Essays 01; 

 American Government," "Obvious Orient," etc. 



February /^.— "The Confederation of South 

 Africa." By Hon. Chase S. Osborn, formerly 

 Governor of Michigan, author of "The Andean 

 Land." 



February 16. — "Britain Beyond the Seas : 

 Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Other 

 Colonies of the British Empire." The name 

 of this speaker will be announced later. 



February ig. — "Austria-Hungary, the Land 

 of Contrasts." By E. M. Newman. 



February 26. — "Japan Today." By Mr. Roy 

 C. Andrews, of the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



March 5. — "Driving Pests from the Globe : 

 An Account of the Humanitarian Work of the 

 International Health Commission, Founded by 

 John D. Rockefeller." By Dr. Wycliffe Rose, 

 Administrative Secretary. 



March 12. — "The Chinese Republic." By Dr. 

 Frank J. Goodnow, President of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Legal Adviser to the Chinese 

 Government 1913-1914. 



March 16. — "The Flying Machine in Geo- 

 graphic Studies." By Mr. O. P. Austin. 



March ig. — "Argentina and Chile ; Compari- 

 sons and Contrasts of the Temperate Amer- 

 icas." By Mr. Bailey Willis, Consulting Geol- 

 ogist to the Minister of Public Works of 

 Argentina 1911-1913. 



March 23. — "Russia." This subject of great 

 interest will be dealt with by an authority 

 whose study of Russia will render it a most 

 popular and valuable one. 



March 26. — "My Visit to the Vatican." By 

 Hon. William H. Taft, former President of 

 the United States. 



April 2. — ^"Brazil." By Anthony Fiala, mem.- 

 ber of the Roosevelt South American Expedi- 

 tion of 1913-1914. 



April 16. — It is hoped that official engage- 

 ments will permit Hon. Myron T. Herrick, 

 Ambassador to France 1912-1914, to accept the 

 invitation of the Society to address the Asso- 

 ciation during the course. 



There will also be a lecture on "Holland 

 and Her People" by Hon. David J. Hill, for- 

 merly United States Ambassador to Holland. 

 The date of this lecture will be announced 

 later. 



