NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



LECTURE COURSES 



OK THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. 



The program of the lectures for each month and all other announcements 

 by the vSociety will be published regularly in the National Geographic 

 Magazine. 



THE POPULAR COURSE, 



delivered in the 

 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, TENTH AND G STREETS N. W., 



on alternate Friday evenings at S o'clock. 



February 9. — F^xplorations on Yangste Kiang . Mr Wm. Barclay Parsons, C. E. 



Surveyor of the railway route through the Yangste Kiang valley. 



February 16.— The History and (".eographic Distribution of the Bubonic Plague, 



Gkorgk M. Sternberg, 



Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 

 February 23. — I'roni the .Andes through Bolivia and Back . Hon. Wm. Ei.EROY CuRTis, 



E.x-Director of the Bureau of American Republics. 



March 9. — Manchuria Mr M. Sp:rgey Friede, C. E. 



March 23. — The Venezuelan Boundary .... Mr MARCUS Baker. 



*The International Geographic Congress . Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. A. 

 *The Missions of California Mr J. Stanley-Brown. 



*Cuba Mr GEORGE Kennan. 



* Presidential .\ddress . . . Dr Alexander Graham Bell. 



THE TECHNICAL COURSE, 



delivered in the 



ASSEMBLY HALL OF COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY, FIFTEENTH AND H STREETS N. W., 



on Friday evenings at S.15 o'clock. 



February 2. — Explorations around the .Arctic Circle . . Dr Frank Russell, 



Harvard University. 

 March 2. — The Geographic Distribution of Seed Plants , Prof. John M. Coulter, 



Chicago University. 



March 16.— The Roman I'orum Prof. Mitchell Carroll, 



Columbian University. 

 March 30. — Subject not \et announced .... Prof. Wm. M. Davis, 



Harvard University. 



*The Dykes of Holland Gerard H. Matthes, 



U. S. Geological Survey. 

 *The Floods of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys . H. C. Frankknfield, 



U. S. Weather Bureau. 

 * The date to be announced later. 



