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E. Burney Young has an article entitled "The Colonial Producer." Part 

 III contains an article by Sir Sidney Shippard on the Administration of 

 Justice in South Africa, and one entitled " Cyprus and Its Possibilities," 

 by Charles Christian. Part IV pictures the economic condition of Aus- 

 tralia at the present time, under the title " Studies in Australia in 1896," 

 by Hon. T. A. Brassey. H. G. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 SOCIETY, SESSION iSgd-'gy 



Special Meeting, March 15, 1897.— Thivd Monday afternoon illustrated 

 lecture. Vice-President Greely in the chair. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, 

 LL. D., Professor in the Catholic University of America, lectured on 

 Syria. 



Regular Meeting, March 19, i597.— Vice-President Merriam in the chair. 

 Mr Arthur P. Davis, of the U. S. Geological Survey, read a paper on "The 

 Deserts of Southern Arizona and How They Are Redeemed by Irriga- 

 tion," illustrating his subject with lantern slides. 



Special Meeting, March S2, 1897.— Fowrih. Monday afternoon illustrated 

 lecture. President Hubbard in the chair. Prof Thomas Davidson, M. A., 

 of Aberdeen, Scotland, lectured on Tyre and Sidon. 



Annual Reception, Marches, 1897.— The Annual Reception of the Society 

 was held at the Arlington Hotel, from 9 to 12 o'clock p. m. President 

 Hubbard, with the ladies of the Reception Committee, received the mem- 

 bers and guests of the Society, to the number of 300. The Society was 

 honored with the presence of the President of the United States and 

 several members of the Cabinet. 



Special Meeting, March S6, 1597.— President Hubbard in the chair. Hon. 

 John W. Foster read a paper on the Hawaiian islands. A number of 

 maps wei'e shown on the screen at the commencement of the lecture, and 

 at its close Mr E. D. Preston, of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 exhibited a series of lantern-slide views of scenery in the islands. 



Eleci'ions. — New members have tjeen elected as follows : 

 March 19.— D. Q. Abbot, Mrs Emily E. Briggs, Paul Brockett, Rev. S. 

 Bayard Dod, Prof L. M. Drake, A. F. Dunnington, Miss C. L. Freethey, 

 Prof H. G. Hipp, S. B. Laird, Col. J. R. Lewis, U. S. A., George B. 

 Magrath, V. F. Marsters, Miss Hester McNully, Miss Annie S. Peck, Dr 

 Fred L. Ransome, Miss Olive R. Seward, J. C. Stanton, C. E. 



At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society held in London on 

 March 22 Dr Nansen expi-essed his conviction that a properly equipped 

 expedition could now reach the Pole in a single summer. He stated, 

 however, that from a scientific point of view the results of such an expe- 

 dition would be of far less value than those of some other explorations 

 that might be undertaken in the less known parts of the Arctic regions. 



