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tions of the Indians. It is not the national government that is 
primarily at fault in either case, but the miner, the trader, the 
stock-grower, the land-grabber. In both cases those occupying 
tlie countiy are either too ignorant or too shiftless to develop its 
resources for themselves, and the temptation to take possession 
is too great to be resisted by those restless, dauntless, and ofttimes 
ungovernable spirits who have been impelled by some m3^sterious 
centrifugal force to the periphery of civilization. J. H. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 
SOCIETY, SESSION iSgG-’gy 
Special Meeting, October 9, 1896 . — President Hubbard in the chair. Vice- 
President Greely delivered an address on Recent Geographic Progress, 
with Special Reference to Explorations in the Arctic Regions and Africa. 
Special Meeting, October 16, 1896 . — President Hubbard in the chair. IMr 
Geo. F. Becker read a paper, with lantern-slide illustrations, on The AVit- 
watersrand and the Uitlanders’ Revolt. 
Special Meeting, October 23, 1896 . — President Hubbard in the chair. Rev. 
John N. MacGonigle, of St. Augustine, Fla., addressed the Society on The 
Geography of the Southern Peninsula of the United States, illustrating 
his address with lantern slides. 
ELECTtoxs. — New members have been elected as follows: 
October 9. — AV. H. Beal, Hon. .John B. Cotton, AA’’m. H. Darlington, Miss 
E. B. Eakle, Geo. K. French, Maj. Clement de Grandiu’ey (French Em- 
bassy), Mrs M. B. Hitz, Chas. AV. Little, Mrs Rosa McCabe, James A. 
iNIitchell, C. H. Slioles, Prof. J. F. Sims, W. G. Steele, l\Irs P. IM. Stocking, 
Chas. AAh Thompson, AA'^. M. Van Dyke, Fred. C. AA'arman, Fletclier AAMiite, 
Rev. Earl M. AVilbur, Dr James AA’^oodrow, AV. Redin AA’^oodward, IMiss 
M. Zimmerman. 
Obituaky. — The Society has to deplore the deaths of the following 
members: IMr Edward Kiibel, an old and much resi)ected citizen of the 
Di-strict of Columbia, for many years connected with the U. S. Geological 
Survey; Mr Philip S. Abbot, a man of remarkable abilities and one of 
the most skillful and intrepid of mountain climbers, who lost his life by 
falling down the great precij)ice of Mt. Lefmy, .Alberta, when engaged in 
the exi)loration of that almost inacce.ssible mountain, in company with 
other well-known members of the .Ai>palacliian Mountain Club; and the 
Hon. Edwin AAhllits, Ph. I)., successively Member of Congress, Presidimt 
of the Michigan State Agricultural College, .Assistant Secretary of .Agri- 
culture, and President of the U. S. Commission for the AA'orM's Columbian 
Exposition; also a member from 1892 to 1895 of the Board of Managers 
