PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 
SOCIETY, SESSION i 895-’96 
Regular Meeting, December 27 , 1895. — President Hubbard in the chair. 
Amendments to the l)y-la\vs were adopted as follows : 
Articlk I^’’ — Officers. — The business of the Society shall be transacted 
by a Board of ^Managers composed of eighteen members, six of whom shall 
be elected by the Society at each annual meeting. They shall serve for 
three years, or until their successors are elected. A majority vote shall l>e 
re((uisite fur election. Vacancies arising in the Board shall be filled by 
the Board. 
The Board of IManagers shall elect annually from their number a Presi- 
dent, six Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Recording Secretary, and a Cor- 
responding Secretary. 
The following resolution also was adopted : 
Whereas the Society has adopted certain amendments to its by-laws, 
bv which it is proviiled that the members of the Board of ^lanagers be 
elected hereafter for terms of three years, and one-third of its members 
retire each year: therefore, 
Resolved, That the Pxjard of ^Managers is hereby instructed to group its- 
members iu three classes, the first of which shall retire in May, 1896, the 
second in INIay, 1897, and the third in May, 1898. 
Vice-President Ogden delivered an address on Coast Hydrography and 
its Uses, and ^Ir G. W. Littlehales read a paper entitled, “ Why the Sea. 
is Salt.” 
Special Meeting, Januarg 3, 1896. — President Hubbard in the chair. Dr 
D. C. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins Univ'ersity, gave an address 
on The Geographic Development of Universities. 
Regular Meeting, January 10, 1896. — President Hubbard in the chair. 
Mr William Eleroy Curtis read a i>aper, with lantern-slide illustrations, 
on Venezuela : her Government, People, and Boundary. 
Special Meeting, January 17, 1896. — President Hubbard in the chair. 
Mr Robert E. Peary, Civil Engineer, U. S. Navy, delivered an address, 
with lantern-slide illustrations, entitled, ‘‘Explorations in the Far North,”' 
relating more particularly to his recent expedition to northern Greenland. 
Regular Meeting, January 24, 1896. — Joint ^Meeting with the American 
Forestry Association. Hon. J. Sterling iMorton, Secretary of Agriculture, 
in the chair. Addresses on the sul)ject of the Public Forests, Lauds, and 
Waters of the United States were delivered by Hon. Fred. T. Dubois» 
U. S. S., Hon. John F. Lacey, M. C., Hon. Thomas C. McRae, M. C., and 
^Ir William E. Smythe, of Chicago. 
Elkction'S. — New members have been elected as follows : 
December 27. — Hon. Win. ^1. Aiken, Chief Engineer G. AV. Baird 
U. S. N., Col. J. W. Barlow, U. S. A., Ensign L. C. Bertolette, U. S. N. 
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