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THE TRANSCONTINENTAL EXCURSION OF 
THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL 
SOCIETY 
Tue American Geographical Society of New 
York celebrates this year the occupation of 
its new building on Broadway at 156th 
Street and the sixtieth anniversary of its 
founding. No form of celebration seemed 
so fitting as an excursion across the United 
States, in which an invited party of Euro- 
pean geographers should make the journey in 
company with a number of American geog- 
raphers, who would show the visitors the most 
significant of our geographical features; the 
excursion to be closed by a meeting in New 
York, when the visitors should be invited to 
give some account of what they have seen. 
The plan thus outlined is now approaching 
its realization. The leading geographical so- 
clieties of over a dozen European countries 
have been requested to select from among 
their members a number of proficient geog- 
raphers whom the American Geographical So- 
ciety may welcome on the excursion. The list 
thus constituted, with the addition of a few 
names otherwise invited, now includes over 
forty geographers from sixteen different coun- 
tries; most of the delegates being professors 
in universities or officers of national geo- 
The character of the party 
will be sufficiently indicated by announcing 
the coming of Partsech and Drygalski, Merz- 
bacher and Jaeger, of Germany; Gallois, Mar- 
gerie and Vacher, of France; Chisholm, 
Beckit and Falconer, of Great Britain; 
Niermeyer and Oestreich, of Holland; Le- 
cointe, of Belgium; Beltran, of Spain; Silva- 
Telles, of Portugal; Briickner and Ober- 
hummer, of Austria; Cholnoky and Teleki, of 
Hungary; Ovijié, of Servia; Doubiansky and 
Schokalsky, of Russia; Andersson, of Sweden; 
Olufsen, of Denmark; Brunhes, Chaix and 
Nussbaum, of Switzerland, and Calciati, Mari- 
nelli and Vinceguerra, of Italy. It is safe to 
say that no such gathering of geographical 
crowned heads has ever been brought from 
Europe to America. 
The Americans already enlisted, either as 
round-trip or as temporary members, include, 
graphic societies. 
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among professors of geography, Barrows and 
Cowles, of Chicago; Brigham. of Colgate; 
Bowman, of Yale; Davis and Ward, of Har- 
vard; Dodge and Johnson, of Columbia; 
Fenneman, of Cincinnati; Jefferson, of 
Ypsilanti, and Martin and Whitbeck, of Wis- 
consin, as well as a number of scientific men 
from various parts of the country representing 
subjects allied to geography. Professor W. 
M. Davis, of Harvard University, has been 
appointed director of the excursion. The 
party as now made up includes over fifty 
round-trip members and some twenty or more 
temporary members. The number of partici- 
pants is still to be somewhat enlarged, and 
correspondence (addressed to the director, 
Transcontinental Excursion American Geo- 
graphical Society, Broadway at 156th Street, 
New York) is therefore invited from profic- 
ient geographers (men only) who may desire 
to take part in the excursion for longer or 
shorter periods, and who can aid the American 
members already enlisted in explaining our 
geographical features to the European mem- 
bers. Place on the special train in which the 
excursion will be made can not be promised 
to all applicants, but it is hoped that all pro- 
fessional geographers who wish to take part 
in the excursion can be accommodated in one 
or another part of the route. The excursion 
train will leave New York about August 22, 
and return in the early part of October. 
The route of the excursion includes Niag- 
ara, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, St. Paul- 
Minneapolis—probably Duluth and the Iron 
region—the Yellowstone Park, Spokane, 
Seattle, Tacoma, Portland—probably San 
Francisco, possibly the Yosemite Valley— 
Salt Lake City, Grand Junction, Denver, 
Albuquerque, the Grand Canyon of the Colo- 
rado in northern Arizona, Kansas City, St. 
Louis—possibly Memphis, Birmingham and 
Chattanooga—Washington and New York. 
Numerous stops will be made at points of 
geographical interest on the way. A most 
generous hospitality is promised at many 
places, where the party will be entertained in 
local clubs and taken about in automobiles. 
The cities of the far northwest are particularly 
