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If tlie membership and finances warrant, 

 the foreign delegates will be made guests of 

 the congress from Washington to St. Louis, 

 via Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, 

 Niagara Falls and Chicago. On the far-west 

 excursion special terms will be secured, reduc- 

 ing the aggregate cost of transportation, with 

 sleeping-car accommodations, and meals, ma- 

 terially below the customary rates. It may 

 be necessary to limit the number of persons 

 on the far-west excursion. It is planned also 

 to secure special rates for transportation of 

 foreigTi members from one or more European 

 ports to New York, provided requisite informa- 

 tion as to the convenience and pleasure of such 

 members be obtained in time. Final informa- 

 tion oil these points will be given in the pre- 

 liminary program of June, 1904. 



The subjects for treatment and discussion 

 in the congress may be classified as follows : 



1. Physical geography, including geomorphol- 

 ogy, meteorology, hydrology, etc. 



2. Mathematical geography, including geodesy 

 and geophysics. 



3. Biogeography, including botany and zoology 

 in their geographic aspects. 



4. Anthropogeography, including ethnology. 



5. Descriptive geography, including explora- 

 tions and surveys. 



6. Geographic technology, including cartog- 

 raphy, bibliography, etc. 



7. Commercial and industrial geography. 



8. History of geography. 



9. Geographic education. 



A special opportunity will be afforded for 

 the discussion of methods of surveying and 

 map-making, and for the comparison of these 

 methods as pursued in other countries with 

 the work of the federal and state surveys main- 

 tained in this country. 



Members of the congress will be entitled to 

 participate in all sessions and excursions, and 

 to attend all social meetings in honor of the 

 congress; they will also (whether in attend- 

 ance or not) receive the publications of the 

 congress, including the daily program and the 

 final Compte Rendu, or volume of proceedings. 

 Membership may be acquired by members of 

 geographic and cognate societies on payment 

 of $5 (25 francs, one pound, or 20 Marks) to 

 the committee of arrangements. Persons not 



members of such societies may acquire mem- 

 bership by a similar payment and election by 

 the presidency. Ladies and minors accom- 

 panying members may be registered as asso- 

 ciates on payment of $2.50 (12J francs 10 

 shillings, or 10 Marks) ; they shall enjoy all 

 privileges of members except the rights of 

 voting and of receiving publications. 



Geographers and their friends desirous of 

 attending the congress or receiving its publi- 

 cations are requested to signify their intention 

 at the earliest practicable date, in order that 

 subsequent announcements may be sent them 

 without delay and that requisite arrangements 

 for transportation may be effected. On re- 

 ceipt of subscriptions, members and associates' 

 tickets will be mailed to the subscribers. The 

 privileges of the congress, including the ex- 

 cursions and the social gatherings, can be ex- 

 tended only to holders of tickets. 



It is earnestly hoped that the congress of 

 1904 may be an assemblage of geographic and 

 cognate institutions no less than of individual 

 geographers; and to this end a special invita- 

 tion is extended to such organizations to 

 participate in the congress' through delegates 

 on the basis of one for each one hundred mem- 

 bers up to a maximum of ten. No charge will 

 be made for the registration of institutions, 

 though the delegates will be expected to sub- 

 scribe as members; and in order that the list 

 of affiliated institutions (to be issued in a 

 later announcement) may be worthy of full 

 confidence, the committee of arrangements re- 

 serves the right to withhold the name of any 

 institution pending action by the presidency. 

 The publications of the congress will be sent 

 free to all institutions registered. It is espe- 

 cially desired that the geographic societies of 

 the western hemisphere may utilize the oppor- 

 tunity afforded by this congress for establishing 

 closer relations with those of the old world, 

 and to facilitate this, Spanish will be recog- 

 nized as one of the languages of the congress, 

 with French, English, German and Italian, 

 in accordance with previous usage; and com- 

 munications before the congress may be writ- 

 ten in any of these languages. 



Institutions not strictly geographic in char- 

 acter, libraries, universities, academies of sci- 



