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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



THE program of addresses arranged for 

 this season is given below. 

 Every lecture is given twice — in the 

 afternoon at 4: 45 and in the evening at 8 : 15 — 

 with the exception of the lectures by ex-Presi- 

 dent Charles W. Eliot and Mr. David Fair- 

 child, on March 7. 



In addition to the list of speakers an- 

 nounced, Hon. Charles R. Crane has accepted 

 the invitation of the Society to give an ad- 

 dress on "The Balkan States," the date to be 

 announced later. The members of the Society 

 will receive due notice of all changes. 



The lectures will be given in the New Ma- 

 sonic Auditorium, Thirteenth street and New 

 York avenue (entrance on New York avenue). 

 All lectures are illustrated with colored lan- 

 tern slides, and the majority also by motion 

 pictures. 



November 15. — "The Blond Eskimo of Coro- 

 nation Gulf." By Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 

 of the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Mr. Stefansson, during his four years' explo- 

 ration (1909-1912) of the Arctic coast of 

 North America, discovered a new tribe of 

 Eskimos, numbering nearly 2,000, who in phys- 

 ical characteristics differ considerably from 

 any Eskimos previously known. Many of 

 them have red hair and blue eyes. Much 

 speculation has been aroused as to the origin 

 of the tribe. 



November 22. — "Bulgaria and Servia." By 

 Col. Nox McCain. An intimate description of 

 two small nations whose courage, dash, and 

 achievements have astounded the world. 



November 29.— "The Panama Canal, as told 

 in Kinemacolor Motion Pictures." By Rear 

 Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. Navy. The 

 Kinemacolor gives the most graphic and real- 

 istic picture yet made of the gigantic works 

 at Panama. 



December 6. — "The Ascent of Mount Mc- 

 Kinley." By Prof. Herschel Parker, of Co- 

 lumbia University, New York. After several 

 expeditions to Mount McKinley and repeated 

 attempts to scale this loftiest mountain of 

 North America, Prof. Herschel Parker at- 

 tained to within 300 feet of the summit in the 

 summer of 1912. Mount McKinley had been 

 the goal of many mountaineers, all of whom 

 failed to reach a point within thousands of 

 ftet of its summit. 



December 13. — "The Romance of the Red 

 Indian." By Mr. Walter McClintock. 



December 20. — "Modern Greece and Monte- 

 negro." By Hon. George Higgins Moses, 

 United States Minister to Greece and Monte- 

 negro, 1909- 1912. 



January 3. — "A Vanishing Empire." By 

 Mr. E. M. Newman. Mr. Newman will tell of 

 Constantinople, Salonica, Adrianople, and the 

 other historic cities which are the center of 

 the present Eastern War. 



January lo.- — "The Discovery of the South 

 Pole." By Capt. Roald Amundsen, gold 



medalist of the National Geographic Society. 

 This will be Captain Amundsen's first lecture 

 in the United States. 



January 11. — Annual Banquet. At the New 

 Willard. 



January _ 17. — "New Women in China." By 

 Dr. Yamei Kin, the foremost woman physician 

 in China. She is an unusually brilliant speaker 

 and addressed the Society on her last visit 

 to America, in 191 1. 



January 24.— "Hunting Big Game Across- 

 the World, from Borneo to the Rockies, in- 

 cluding Central Africa, the British Isles, India,. 

 Canada, etc." By Mr. Cherry Kearton, of 

 England. Mr. Kearton shows 3,000 feet of 

 motion picture films of hunting the tiger, ele- 

 phant, Indian bison, orang-outang, lion, bear, 

 buffalo, elk, etc. 



January 31.— "Exploring in the Canadian, 

 Rockies and the Capture of Mount Robson, 

 its Highest Peak." By Rev. George Kinney. 



February 7. — "Austria-Hungary." By Hon. 

 Bellamy Storer, formerly American Ambas- 

 sador to Austria-Hungary. 



February 14. — "Around the World in Eight}r 

 Minutes: A Twenty-five Thousand Mile Tour, 

 told in One Mile of Motion Pictures." By 

 Hon. O. P. Austin, Secretary of the National 

 Geographic Society. 



February 21. — "An Explorer's Experiences- 

 in Little-known Portions of Korea." By Mr. 

 Roy C. Andrews, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



February 28. — Mr. George Kennan will de- 

 liver an address to the National Geographic 

 Society on some subject to be announced later. 



March 7. — The subject of the afternoon 

 lecture will be "Monsters of our Back Yards." 

 By Mr. David Fairchild, of the Department 

 of Agriculture. Mr. Fairchild will show on 

 lantern slides a marvelous collection of en- 

 larged photographs of locusts, spiders, ants, 

 flies, mosquitoes, caterpillars, etc., all the 

 photographs having been taken by him b}' a 

 special process. 



The address in the evening will be by Presi- 

 dent Emeritus Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard 

 University, and the subject: "How to Estab- 

 lish a Strong Government in China." 



March 14. — "The South Today and Tomor- 

 row." By Mr. Claude N. Bennett. 



March 21. — "Gorgeous Siam." By Dr. J. 

 Howard Gore. 



March 28. — "Our Pursuit of the Pheasant." 

 By Dr. C. William Beebe, of the New York 

 Zoological Park. 



April 4. — "The Incas of Peru." By Prof. 

 Hiram Bingham, of Yale University. An ac- 

 count of the results of the Yale-National Geo- 

 graphic Society Expedition to Peru of 1912. 



April II. — "The American Eden." By 

 C. J. Blanchard, of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service. The glory of our national parks 

 and of the golden west is vividly portrayed 

 in natural colors by the Kinemacolor. 



