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a Resume of Capt. Cook's First Voyage Around the AVorld, by Gen. Sir 

 Henry W. Norman; a siimmar}' liistory of Arctic exploration, by Major 

 A. J. Boyd, and the narrative of Capt. G. A. Tennefather; also Kxplora- 

 tion of the Coen, Archer, and Batavia Rivers and of the islands of the 

 western coast of Karpantaria, by the same author. 



The Weather Bureau has recently issued Part 3 of the Report of the 

 International Meteorological Congress held at Chicago in 1893, in connection 

 with the World's Columbian Exposition. It contains brief papers upon 

 the climates of various parts of the world, commencing with that of the 

 United States, by Prof. H. A. Hazen. Under the title of 'J. Instruments 

 and Methods of Investigation " are described many of the latest adapta- 

 tions of instruments for special work, including "Observations of Solar 

 Radiation" and "The Stud}' of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Bal- 

 loons, from Mountain Stations, and fi'om Cloud Observations." 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 



SOCIETY, Session is^e-'gy 



Special Meeting, December 4, 1896. — President Hubbard in the chair. 

 Admiral R. W. Meade, U. S. N., delivered an address, with lantern-slide 

 illustrations, descriptive of a Winter Voyage through the Straits of Ma- 

 gellan, with Visits to Rio Janeiro and Valparaiso. 



Regular Meeting, December 11, 1896. — President Hubbard in the chair. 

 President David Starr Jordan, Ph. D., of the Leland Stanford Junior 

 University, read a narrative entitled "Matka: a Story of the Mist Islands." 

 This story, the life history of a fur-seal family (the niembers half personi- 

 fied), was followed by a series of lantern-slide illustratioiis of scenes in 

 the Pribvlof islands. 



Special Meeting, December 18, 1896. — Secretary Hayden in the chair. 

 Geo. M. Sternberg, M. D., LL. D., Surgeon-General of the Army, read a 

 paper on the Etiology and Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases, 

 afterwards exhibiting a series of lantern-slides illustrative of the subject. 



Elections. — New members have been elected as follows: 

 November S3.—G. W, Bacon, F.R.G.S., Gen. Samuel Breck, U.S.A., Col. 

 Ohas. Chaille-Long, A. \V. Cowdes, Prof. Thomas Davidson, Walter R. 

 Davies, J. P. Earnest, Col. M.J. Foote, Henry S. Graves, Lieut. T. D. 

 Griffen, U.S.N., Mrs Bella Kilbourn-Bourgeat, Miss Elizabeth A. Riley, 

 F. P. Schumann, C. K., Mrs Emma Triepel, Miss Alice Twight, M. Gregory 

 de Vollant (Russian Legation), Geo. H. Warner, John H. White. 



December 11. — Dr Aaron Baldwin, John S. Blair, Prof. Fi-ank M. Com- 

 stock, Dr Ira W. Dennison, Rev. Geo. A. Dougherty, Dr L. W. Eugster, 

 Fred. L. Fishback, Seiior Don Domingo Gana (Chilean Minister), Prof. 

 Wm. H. Goodyear, Lee R. Grabill, C. E., Miss Edith S. Hancock, Hon. 

 M. A. Hanna, Henry L. Haven, John J. Heron, Hon. S. G. Hilborn, 



