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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



THE National Geographic Society 

 has much pleasure in expressing its 

 thanks and appreciation to the following 

 companies and individuals for material 

 assistance rendered to its Alaskan Expe- 

 dition of 1909: 



Borden's Condensed Milk Company, 108 

 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. — Condensed and 

 evaporated milk. 



Northern Steamship Co. Lindsay, Seattle, 

 Wash. — Half rates, Cordova to Seattle. 



Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y. — Loan of 2 pair field glasses, 2 lenses for 

 large camera. 



Winchester Repeating Arms Co., Nev^r 

 Haven, Conn. — Fifty per cent discount on shot- 

 gun, carbine, and ammunition. 



Armour & Co., Chicago, 111. — Extract of beef. 



Keuf¥el & Esser, New York, N. Y.— Double 

 mounted paper for plane table work. 



Franco-American Food Co., Franklin St. and 

 Central Ave., Jersey City, N. J. — Soups. 



Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y.— Dis- 

 count on photographic equipment. 



Williams Bros. Co., Detroit, Mich. — Canned 

 goods, preserves, and pickles. 



Schwabacher Grocery Co., Seattle, Wash. — 

 Discount on groceries. 



Merrill-Soule Co., Syracuse, N. Y.— Trumilk 

 and truegg. 



Katalla Company and Copper River and 

 Northwestern Ry. Co., Cordova, Alaska. — 

 Transportation, subsistence, maps, etc., for R. S. 

 Tarr and Lawrence Martin. 



W. and L. E. Gurley, Troy, N. Y.— Discount 

 on topographic equipment. 



Alaskan Division U. S. Geological Survey. — 

 Maps and information, loan of instruments and 

 assigning topographer. 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. — Loan of 

 instruments. 



U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. 

 C. — Loan of small sounding reel. 



Jack Dalton, Cordova, Alaska. — Loan of 

 boat, etc. 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 SOCIETY 



THE Annual Meeting of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society occurred 

 Friday evening, January 14. Reports of 

 the Secretary and Treasurer were sub- 

 mitted and are printed below. The eight 

 members of the Board of Managers 

 whose terms expired at the meeting were 

 unanimously re-elected for the ensuing 

 three years, namely, Henry E. Blount, 

 C. M. Chester, F. V. Coville, John E. 



Pillsbury, Rudolph Kaufifmann, T. L- 

 Macdonald, Willis L. Moore, and S. N. 

 D. North. 



At a regular meeting of the Board of 

 Managers, January 19, Mr Henry Gan- 

 nett, who has been Vice-President of the 

 Society for the past five years and Chair- 

 man of its Committee on Research, was 

 unanimously elected President ; Mr O. H. 

 Tittmann, Superintendent of the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey, was 

 elected Vice-President, and Messrs O. P. 

 Austin and John Joy Edson re-elected 

 Secretary and Treasurer respectively. 



report oic seicretary o. p. austin ■por 

 the; ye;ar 1909 



The year 1909 shows a large increase 

 in the membership of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society and a general improve- 

 ment in its condition and work. The 

 number of members at the beginning of 

 the year was 38,696, the number added 

 upon their own application during the 

 year was 18,152, and the losses by death 

 and resignation 3,515, making the net in- 

 crease during the year 14,637, and the 

 total membership on December 31, 1909^ 

 53^333' oi which number 348 are life 

 members. 



This large increase in membership and 

 consequent increase in the receipts of the 

 Society has enabled it to give its mem- 

 bers a larger and better Magazine, a ma- 

 terial increase in the number of popular 

 lectures, and to also set aside a consider- 

 able sum as a permanent investment. 



The membership is distributed through 

 all the States and Territories of the 

 Union, and includes about 2,363 in the 

 District of Columbia and between 60Q 

 and 700 in the Philippines, Hawaii, and 

 Alaska. The membership in foreign 

 countries is over 2,383 and represents- 

 fifty dififerent countries and colonies of 

 the world, including all the European 

 countries, Egypt, India, China, Japan,. 

 Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the vari- 

 ous South American countries, and sev- 

 eral of the West Indian islands. The 

 membership in Canada is 655 ; in Mexico, 

 391; in the Hawaiian Islands, 266; in 



