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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 

 CALENDAR, 1895. 



Feb. 8. — Topographic Forms : Maj. Gilbert 

 Thompson, Mr. Henry Gannett, Mr. G. 

 AV. Littlehales. 



Feb. 15. — Shakespeare's England : Rev. G. 

 Arbuthnot. 



Feb. 22. Practical BemlU of the Bering Sea 

 Arbitration : Mr. J. STANLEY-BRO\yN. 



Mar. 1. — Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 

 Babylonia: Rev. Dr. Francis Brown. 



Mar. 8. Mexican Boundary : Mr. A. T. Mos- 

 MAN, Mr. Stehman Forney, Capt. E. A. 

 Mearns, U. S. a. 



Mar. 15. — Turkey: Rev. Dr. Henry H. 

 Jessup. 



Mar. 18. — Washington to Pittsburg and to Ni- 

 agara Falls ; Across the Appalachians: Dr. 

 David T. Day. 



Side Trip to Xiagara Falls: Mr. G. K. Gil- 

 bert. 



March 20. Reception at the Arlington Ho- 

 tel, Washington, D. C, 9 to 11 p. m. 



Mar. 22. Pittsburg to Yellowstone National 

 Park ; Pittsburg to St. Paul, through the oil 

 and gas i-egio7is : Professor Edward Or- 

 ton. 



St. Paul to Velloivstone National Park: Mr. 

 "Walter H. Weed. 



Mar. 22. — The Alaskan Boundary: Mr. J. E. 

 McGrath, Mr. J. F. Pr.\tt, Mr. H. P. 

 Ritter. 



Mar. 25. Yellowstone National Park to Sacra- 

 mento; Yellowstone Park ; doivn the Columbia ; 

 visit to Mt. Rainier and Portland : Mr. 

 Bailey AVillis. 



Portland to Crater Lake; Mount Shasta and 

 Sacramento : Mr. J. S. Diller. 



Mar. 29. — Sacramento to northern Arizona; Sac- 

 ramento ; the Golden Gate ; Yotemite ; Los 

 Angeles; San Bernardino: Mr. W. D. 

 Johnson. 



From San Bernardino across ttie deserts ; to San 

 Francisco Mt., Arizona: Maj. J. W. 

 Powell. 



Mar. 2d.— Oregon : Hon. J. H. Mitchell. 



April 1. — Grand Canon and Sonora, Mexico; 



Salt Lake City to the Grand Caiion ; a winter 



in the depth of the Cafion : Mr. Charles 



D. Walcott. 

 Prescott, Phanix and Tucson, to Sonora, Mexico; 



visit to the so-called cannibals : Mr. W J 



McGee. 

 April 5. — Across the Rocky Mountains to 



Denver ; Northern Arizona, the Rio Grande, 



and across the mountains to Denver: Prof. 



A. H. Thompson. 

 The Home of the Pueblo Lulians: Mr. Frank 



Hamilton Gushing. 

 April 5. — Physical Geography of the Great 



Lakes: Prof. Mark W. Harrington. 

 April S. — Denver to Washington; Denver to 



Pueblo, doivn the Arkansas river, and across 



the plains to St. Louis: Mr. F. H. Newell. 

 St. Louis to Washington, with i>isits to the great 



caves of Ky. and Va.: Major Jed. Hotch- 



KISS. 



April 12. — ^)-_i7e?i<i*na,Colunibian Universitj'^, 



8:.30 to 9:30 P. m.: Dr. D. Estanislao S. 



Zeballos. 

 Aj)ril 19. — The Geography and Geology of 



Nicaragua : Mr. Robert T. Hill. 

 April 26. — Antiquities and Aborigines of Peru : 



Mr. S. Mathewson Scott, Mr. F. H. 



Gushing. 

 May 3. — Fredericksburg : Mr. W J McGee, 



Maj. Gilbert Thompson, Gen. John 



Gibbon, U. S. A. 

 May 4. — Excursion and Field-Meeting, 



Fredericksburg, Ya., 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 

 May 10. — President's Annual Address: Hon. 



Gardiner G. Hubbard. 

 May 17. — Annual Meeting for the Election 



of Officei-s. 



philosophical society of WASHINGTON, 

 march 2. 



On the Discovery of Marine Fossils in the Pam- 

 pean Fonnation, by Dr. H. Von Biering : 

 Mr. Wm. H. Dall. 



Claj>sification of Clouds; Hlustrated by lan- 

 tern slides : Mr. Alexander McAdie. 



