NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



EXCURSIONS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. 



Excursion to High Island.— A trip to High Island on the Potomac, just Ijelow the 

 Little Falls, has been planned for Wednesday, April 4, 1900. It is expected that a 'piirty 

 from the Teacliers' Geography Club of Boston will also join in the excursion. Those 

 members of the Society intending to make the trip will rendezvous in Georgetown, at the 

 junction of the Metropolitan and Cabin John lines, at 1.30 P. M. Thence the party will 

 proceed by electric car and on foot to High Island, where the topographic as well as the 

 botanic and geologic features of the place will receive attention. The talk on topography 

 and geology will be given by Mr G. K. Gilbert, of the U. S. Geological Survey; that on 

 the botany of the region by Mr F. V. Coville, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Returning, the party will reach Washington by 6 P. M. 



THE ANNUAL FIELD MEETING 



of the National Gkoguaphic Sociei-y has been arranged so that the members of the 

 Society may have an opportunity to observe the total eclipse of the sun which takes 

 place on Monday, i\Iay 28. As the center of the belt of totality will pass near 

 Norfolk, Virginia, the board of managers of the Society have made a conditional contract 

 with the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Company for an excursion to that city and 

 vicinity. The party will leave Washington by the Norfolk & Washington steamer at 

 7 o'clock P. M., Sunday, May 27. Returning, leave Norfolk at 6 o'clock Monday afternoon, 

 reaching Wasliingtou on Tuesday morning in time for breakfast at home. 



The total duration of the eclipse will be 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 6 seconds, of whicli 

 1 minute and 26 seconds will be total. The eclipse will be entirely over at 10:15.6 A. M., 

 and from that hour until 6 o'clock the steamer will be at the disposal of the party for a 

 cruise around the harbor and visits to the many points of interest around Norfolk, such 

 as the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Newport News, Fortress Monroe, the Indian Industrial 

 School at Hampton, etc. 



The cost of the round-trip ticket (including transportation and three meals on boat 

 Monday, but not including sleeping accommodations) will be $6. The charge for state- 

 rooms, accommodating two persons, will be from $1 to $3 for each person, according to 

 location. The larger staterooms can be made to accommodate 3 persons by placing a cot 

 therein. A charge of fifty cents will be made in such cases. Cots in the main saloon 

 will be charged for at the rate of fifty cents. These rates are for the round trij). 



The number of tickets to be sold is limited to 250, and as there are only 90 state- 

 rooms, accommodating 180 persons, on the boat, they will be allotted to members in 

 order of their application. Members who desire staterooms or cots should make their 

 reservations as early as possible. A guarantee deposit of $2 on each ticket will be re- 

 quired when the rooms are reserved. 



A diagram of the stcumer showing the location and prices of rooms will l»c I'oniid at 

 the Offices of the Society, Rooms 107-108, Corcoran Building;, Washington, D. C, 



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