December 30, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



949 



The Professional Committee are: F. L. O. 

 Wadsworth, Chairman; Thomas A. Edison, 

 Chas. S. Bradley, Peter Cooper Hewitt, 

 Michael I. Pupin, Bion J. Arnold. 



At the present time the guild has twenty- 

 nine members, as follows : Bion J. Arnold, 

 Dr. L. H. Baekeland, W. H. Blauvelt, Chas. S. 

 Bradley, Alex. E. Brown, Henry L. Doherty, 

 Thomas A. Edison, Carleton Ellis, Stephen D. 

 Field, James Gayley, Edward R. Hewitt, Peter 

 Cooper Hewitt, Chas. W. Hunt, Dr. John F. 

 Kelly, T. S. C. Lowe, Ealph D. Mershon, 

 Ambrose Monell, Professor Edwin F. ISTor- 

 thrup, Professor G. W. Pierce, Chas. E. Pope, 

 Professor Michael I. Pupin, Thomas Robins, 

 Dr. F. Schniewind, C. H. Smoot, Professor 

 Carl Thomas, F. L. O. Wadsworth, Arthur 

 West, Dr. W. E. Winship, B. F. Wood. 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Below is given the program of the popular 

 meetings of the National Geographic Society 

 for 1910-11. 



The program of lectures can be followed 

 until after January 13. There will probably 

 be several shiftings of the lectures in order to 

 meet the convenience of the speakers. All 

 lectures begin at 8.15 promptly. 



November 18 : " Wild Man and Wild Beast iu 

 Africa." By Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. This 

 lecture will be in Convention Hall. 



November 25: "A Glimpse of Portugal." By 

 Miss Laura Bell. Miss Bell was in Portugal for 

 several months during the past summer, and has 

 had an exceptional opportunity to understand the 

 people and conditions of this picturesque country. 

 Illustrated. 



December 2: "Four Journeys of a Naturalist in 

 the Islands of the South Pacific." By Henry E. 

 Crampton, Ph.D., of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. Dr. Crampton will tell of his 

 travels in the Society, Cook, Tonga, Samoan and 

 Hawaiian Islands, and in New Zealand. The 

 natives, their everyday lives and ceremonies, the 

 active volcanoes of Samoa and Hawaii and the 

 free life of the Pacific will be described. Illus- 

 trated. 



December 9: "My Friends, the Indians." By 

 Mr. Frederic Monsen. Illustrated with color- 

 graphs and motion pictures. Mr. Monsen for 

 years has been studying the Indians of Arizona 



and New Mexico, and his series of pictures of 

 Indian life and manners are as beautiful as they 

 are instructive. 



December 10: "The Glories, Sorrows and 

 Hopes of Ireland." By Mr. Seumas MacManus, 

 author of "A Lad of the O'Friel's," "Through 

 the Turf Smoke," " Donegal Fairy Stories," 

 " Ballads of a Country Boy," etc. Illustrated. 



December 30: "From Babel to Esperanto — the 

 Complication of Mother Tongues and the Simpli- 

 city of Esperanto." By Prof. A. Christen. Pro- 

 fessor Christen is a leading authority on E-ipe- 

 ranto. The growth of internationalism and the 

 need of a world tongue lend interest to this topic. 

 •' Esperanto is spreading in almost every Euro- 

 pean nation, and is more easily learned and pro- 

 nounced than any other foreign language. It is 

 taught in all the higher military and naval 

 schools of France, and at Lille has been taught in 

 the public schools for the past three years." 



January 6: "Arab Life in Tunisia." By Frank 

 Edward Johnson. Mr. Johnson has probably seen 

 more of the Barbary States than any other Ameri- 

 can. His lecture includes Tunis ("the White 

 City " ) , the remains of Carthage and other buried 

 Roman cities, Kairowan with its 85 mosques and 

 90 praying places, and descriptions of the Arabs 

 in the oases and in the desert. Illustrated. 



January 13: "The Methods, the Achievements 

 and the Character of the Japanese." By Mr. 

 George Kennan. Illustrated. 



January 20: "Making Pictures. The Wonder- 

 ful Development of the Art of Photography and 

 its Value to Education and Commerce." By Hon. 

 0. P. ^ustin. Chief of the United States Bureau 

 of Statistics and Seeretar;,- of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. Illustrated with motion pictures. 



January 27 : " The Panama Canal." By Col. 

 George W. Goethals, Chief Engineer Panama 

 Canal. Illustrated. 



February 3 : " Our Plant Immigrants." By 

 Mr. David Fairchild, in charge of Agricultural 

 Explorations of the Department of Agriculture. 

 The hunt for valuable new plants and fruits takes 

 the agricultural explorers to many unknown 

 corners of the world, and is a fascinating story 

 of achievement. Illustrated. 



February 10: "The Balkan States." By Mr. 

 E. M. Newman. With motion pictures. 



February 17: "The Heart of Turkestan." By 

 Mr. William E. Curtis. Illustrated - 



February 24: "The Italy of To-day." By Maj. 

 Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. Array. General Greely 

 has just returned to the United States after 



