GEOGRAPHIC NOTES 



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the Philippines, 203; in Alaska, 204; in 

 Porto Rico, 59; in Cuba, 109; in Panama, 

 96; in Europe, 365, and in Central and 

 South America, 118. 



The Annual Dinner of the Society was 

 held at the New Willard Hotel on De- 

 cember 15, and was largely attended. 



It is with much regret that the Secre- 

 tary records the death of Mrs Gardiner 

 Greene Hubbard, October 20, 1909. The 

 handsome building which she and her 

 family presented to the Society and her 

 constant interest in and assistance of the 

 work of the Society from its organiza- 

 tion, in 1888, have been keenly appreci- 

 ated by every member of the Society. 

 The following resolution was adopted by 

 the Board of Managers on behalf of the 

 Society, October 2t^, and sent to the fam- 

 ily of Mrs Hubbard as an expression of 

 the sympathy of the Society in their 

 mutual affliction : 



"The death of Mrs Gardiner Greene 

 Hubbard is to the National Geographic 

 Society a great, an irreparable loss, and 

 to each member of the Board of Man- 

 agers comes as a personal bereavement. 

 Her broad and constant interest in the 

 work of the Society, apparent during the 

 decade in which her husband, Gardiner 

 Greene Hubbard, served as its President, 

 has, since his death on December 11, 

 1897, been its greatest stimulus to re- 

 newed activity in the work to which he 

 devoted so many years and for the con- 

 duct of which he, twenty-one years ago, 

 became the Society's first President. Her 

 personal interest in its work in behalf 

 of scientific geography and the diffusion 

 of geographic information among the 

 people, her attendance upon its meetings 

 during the long years of its activities, 

 and her individual recognition of the 

 work performed by others in its behalf 

 have been an inspiration to the officers 

 of this Society, the members of the Board 

 of Managers, the speaker upon the plat- 

 form, and the Editor at his desk ; while 

 her splendid gift of a building which be- 

 came at once a home for the Society and 

 a memorial to its founder and first Presi- 

 dent now becomes of added interest as 



a memorial of her own generosity and 

 a practical aid in the diffusion of infor- 

 mation to all parts of the country and to 

 all quarters of the world." 



O. P. Austin, 



Secretary. 



Report of the Treasurer, John Joy Edson, for 

 the Year 1909 



RECEIPTS 

 Cash balance as shown by state- 

 ment of December 31, 1908 $24,533.82 



Dues from members 89,782.02 



Life members 2,700.00 



Magazine, subscription and sales... 9,088.01 



Lectures, tickets 5,222.50 



Advertising in Magazine 10,233.58 



Interest on investments.... $812.50 

 Interest on deposit in bank 598.13 



. 1,410.63 



Pubhcations 8,620.69 



Grant Squires Medal Fund Endow- 

 ment 500 . 00 



Sundry 1,848.27 



$153,939-52 



DISBURSEMENTS 



Salaries, clerical hire, and services. $18,371.39 



Magazine, paper, printing, etc 52,451.27 



Pound rate postage on Magazine.. 3,200.00 



Postage 6,575 • 00 



Printing and stationery 8,608.79 



Lectures 5,089.69 



Hubbard Memorial Hall, lights, 



heat, furniture, etc 1,316.65 



Publications : 



Printing, binding, etc. $10,246.36 



Postage and expres- 

 sage 913 02 



11,159-38 



Research Committee, 



Alaskan Expedition... $5,496.39 

 Research Expedition to 

 Naples and Sicily 250.00 



5746.39 



Investments : 



Purchase of lot on 



i6th St $11,338.95 



Notes, secured by 

 real estate 15,000.00 



Accrued interest on 



same 300.00 



26,638.95 



Advertising, commissions 716. 18 



Sundry 3,451-28 



Cash, on deposit in the Washington 



Loan & Trust Company 10,614.55 



$153,939-52 



