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Special Meetiiuj, Fehruarij2S, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. Hon. William 

 E. Curtis gave an illustrated lecture on the Road to Bolivia. 



Regular Meeting, March 2, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. Prof. John M. 

 Coulter, of Chicago University, gave a lecture on the Geographic Distribution 

 of Seed Plants. 



Lenlen Course, March 6, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. Prof. J. Howard 

 Gore, of Columbian University, gave an illustrated lecture on the Growth of 

 the Netherlands. 



Special Meeting, March 9, 1900: — President Bell in the chair. Rev. T. S. Wyn- 

 koop gave an illustrated lecture on Social and Economic Conditions in India. 



Lenten Coarse, March 13, 1900. — Vice-President McGee in the chair. Prof. 

 Jean C. Bracq, of Va.ssar College, gave a lecture on the Growth of France. 



Regular Meeting, March 16, 1900. — Vice-President McGee in the chair. Mr 

 Montagu AVhite, former Consul-General of the Transvaal at London, gave a 

 lecture on South Africa — the Country, People, and Problems. 



Lenten Coarse, March 21, 1900. — Vice-President McGee in the chair. Prof. 

 William Z. Ripley, of the Mas.sachasetts Institute of Technf)logy, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on the Growth of Austria-Hungary. 



Special Meeting, Marcli 23, /50(9.— Vice-President ^NIcGee in tlie chair. Mr 

 Marcus Baker, Geographer to the Paris Arbitration Committee, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on the Venezuelan Boundary. 



Lenlen Coarse, March 27, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. Prof. John L. 

 Ewell, of Howard University, gave an illustrated lecture on the Growth of 

 Germany. 



Regular Meeting, Mai-ch .30, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. , Prof. AVilliam 

 Morris Davis, of Harvard University, gave an illustrated lecture on the Waste 

 of the Land on its Way to the Sea. 



Lenten Connie, April 3, 1900. — Vice-President McGee in the chair. Dr Edwin 

 D. Mead, editor of tiie Neiv England Magazine, gave a lecture on the Growth of 

 England. 



Special Meeting, April 6, 1900. — Vice-President McGee in the chair. Com- 

 mander Chapman C. Todd, U. S. Navy, gave an illustrated lecture on a Voyage 

 up the Amazon River to Yquitos, Peru. 



Lenten Course, April 10, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. Prof. Edwin A, 

 Grosvenor, of Amherst College, gave an illustrated lecture on the Growth of 

 Russia. 



liegalar Meeting, April 13, 1900. — President Bell in the chair. Mr Gerard H. 

 Matthes, of the U. S. Geological Survey, gave an illustrated lecture on the 

 Dykes of Holland. 



Special Meeting, April 27, 1900 — Vice-President McGee in the chair. Dr H. C. 

 Frankentield, of the U. S. Weather Bureau, gave an illustrated lecture on the 

 Floods of the Mississippi. 



Annual Excursion and Field Meeting, May 27-29, IhOO. — An excursion was 

 made by 250 members and friends to Norfolk, Va., by the special steamer New- 

 port News, leaving Washington at 5 p. m. Sunday, May 27, and returning early 

 Tuesday morning, May 29. The total eclipse of the sun, on May 28, was ob- 

 served at Norfolk. Newport News, Yorktown, and Fortress Monroe were also 

 visited. 



