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cles are "A Journey \\]y the Machili," by Percy C. Reid , "From the Ma- 

 cliili to Lialui," by Capt. Alfred Hertrand; " Notes on a Journey Around 

 Mount Masawa," by C W. Hobley. Concerning Asia, there are " Explora- 

 tions in Mysia," by J. A. R. Munro and H. M. Anthony; "Journey of 

 Captain Wellby and Lieutenant Malcolm Across Tibet," and " ('aptain 

 Deasy's Journey in Western Tibet." Mr J. Bartalhareis contributes aii 

 article entitled "The Supposed Discovery of South America Before 1448 

 and the Critical Methods of the Historians of Geographical Discovery." 



" The Scottish Geographical INIagazine" for Febimary contains an ac- 

 count of " Recent Explorations in *the Patagonian AndtJl South of 41° 

 South Latitude," by Dr Hans Stefien, and "Notes upon the Geography 

 of the Argentine Repuhlic," by H. D. Hoskold, Director-General of the 



National Department of Mines and Geology, Buenos Aires. 



H. G. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 SOCIETY, SESSION i896-'97 



Regular Meeting, February 19, /5S7-— President Hubbard in the chair. 

 Mr J. E. Sjjurr read a paper, with lantern-slide illustrations, on the 

 Forty-Mile Creek Gold-Mining District, Alaska. 



Special Meeting, Februarij 20, 1897. — President Hubbard in the chair. 

 Mr George Kennan lectured on Vagabond Life in Eastern Europe, with 

 lantern-slide illustrations. 



Special Meeting, February 26, 1897. — President Hubbard in the chair. 

 Mr Frank Hamilton Gushing addressed the Society on the Ancient Sea- 

 Dwellers and Key-Builders of Florida, illustrating his subject with lantern 

 slides. 



Special Meeting, March 1, 1897. — First lecture of the course of JNIonday 

 afternoon illustrated lectures and annual address of the President of the 

 National Geographic Society, under the auspices of the Joint Connnission 

 of the Scientific Societies of Washington. Surgeon-General George M. 

 Sternberg, U. S. Army, Vice-President of the Joint Commission, in the 

 chair. The subject of President Hubbard's address was the Effects of 

 Geographic Environment in the Develoj^ment of Civilization in Pre- 

 historic Man. 



Regular Meeting, March 5, 1557. —Secretary Hayden in the chair. Mr 

 F. H. Newell delivered an address, illustrated by lantern slides, on the 

 Distribution and Mining of Petroleum. 



Special Meeting, March 8, 1897. — Second Monday afternoon illustrated 

 lecture. President Hubbard in the chair. Rev. W. Hayes Ward, D. D., 

 LL. D., of the New York Independent, lectured on Babylonia. 



Special Meeting, March 12, i^PZ.— Vice-President Greely in the chair. 

 Miss Annie S. Peck lectured on Mountaineering in the Tyrol and Switzer- 

 land, including an .Ascent of the Matterhorn, with lantern-slide illustra- 

 tions. 



