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ton, on Thursday, September 8, an informal 

 reception being held at the Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall by President McGee of the National 

 Geographic Society the evening before. Three 

 days will be allotted to Washington; general 

 meetings being held in the morning; sectional 

 meetings and receptions and social gatherings 

 in the afternoon. Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard 

 will receive the Congress at ' Twin Oaks,' on 

 Friday afteroon; the Smithsonian Institution 

 on Saturday afternoon, and Commander 

 Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., on Saturday even- 

 ing. The Philadelphia Geographical Society 

 will entertain the Congress on Monday, Sep- 

 tember 12, with field meeting and a reception; 

 the American Geographical Society in New 

 York on September 13 and 14, luncheon being 

 served each day at the American Museum of 

 Natural History; a trip up the Hudson will 

 occupy September 15; a field meeting at 

 Niagara Falls, September 16; Chicago will 

 occupy September lY, and meetings on Sep- 

 tember 19, 20 and 21, will be held with the 

 Congress of Arts and Science at St. Louis. 

 A far west trip is planned after adjournment, 

 and on return to Washington President 

 Roosevelt will receive the members. 



Mr. Feerier, secretary of the Scottish Ant- 

 arctic Expedition, has received and printed a 

 letter from Mr. W. S. Bruce, the leader of 

 the expedition, in which he says : " We have 

 reached the southeastern extremity of the 

 Weddell Sea, discovering there a great barrier 

 of ice, part of the Antarctic Continent. We 

 have gone 215 miles further south than last 

 year, and 180 further than Ross in this part 

 of the Antarctic regions. We got beset here 

 in 74 S., 23 W., and were frozen in for a week, 

 from the 7th to the 12th of March. When we 

 got out by chance I thought it wisest not to 

 proceed further in trying to get south and 

 west, but to continue our program to the 

 northeast. We sounded from here up to 

 Gough Island and from Gough Island to the 

 Cape, revolutionizing the map of the South 

 American Ocean by finding relatively shallow 

 where specially deep water was expected." 



Reuter's Agency learns that the scientific 

 esisedition which left England in February 



under Lieutenant Boyd Alexander for the for- 

 est region between the West Coast and Lake 

 Chad arrived in canoes at Ibi, 250 miles up 

 the Binue River, in April. The expedition 

 had two sectional steel boats, and other canoes 

 with stores, etc., were following up the river. 

 The explorers, all of whom were in good 

 health, had already been making some collec- 

 tions on the Binue and intended landing at 

 Ibi with a view to pushing north into Bauchi. 

 It was intended that the boats should proceed 

 further up to the Gongola River, whence they 

 would be carried across to Yo, on Lake Chad. 

 From the lake itself it was intended to strike 

 to the eastward. 



The American Chemical Society will, as 

 we have already announced, hold its thirtieth 

 general meeting at Providence, R. I., on June 

 21, 22 and 23. The hotel headquarters will be 

 the Narragansett Hotel. On Tuesday, June 

 21, at 10 :00 a.m., the fitrst session of the meet- 

 ing will be held in the lecture room of Rocke- 

 feller Hall, of Brown University. There will 

 be an address of welcome by the president of 

 Brown University, Dr. Wm. H. P. Favmce, 

 followed by a response on behalf of the society 

 by its president. Dr. A. A. Noyes. The re- 

 mainder of the morning session will be de- 

 voted to the reading and discussion of papers. 

 Arrangements for afternoon visits and excur- 

 sions will be announced on the program of 

 the meetings, or at the morning session. On 

 Wednesday, at 9 a.m., a session for general 

 business and the reading and discussion of 

 papers will be held in the lecture room of 

 Rockefeller Hall. A part of this session will 

 be given to brief reports on researches which 

 have been in progress in various universities 

 and colleges during the past year. Such re- 

 ports have already been promised from a num- 

 ber of institutions, and it is intended to make 

 this a new and special feature of the meeting. 

 Arrangements for afternoon visits and excur- 

 sions will be announced on the program of the 

 meetings, or at the morning session. On 

 Thursday arrangements will be made for ex- 

 cursions and visits in addition to those planned 

 for the other two days of the meeting. 



