THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



During the season of 1902-1903 the National 

 Geographic Society presents in Washington, 

 D. C , three courses of meetings — Popular Lec- 

 tures, Technical Meetings, and Lenten Lec- 

 tures. These courses have been planned with 

 great care to include those problems of a geo- 

 graphic character which are of special interest 

 to the general public at the present time. Ar- 

 rangements have been made for addresses in 

 the Popular Course on the geographic distribu- 

 tion and mining of hard and soft coal, Mr 

 Peary's work in the Arctics during the last 

 four years, the tragedy of Saint Pierre, Colom- 

 bia and the Isthmian Canal, the commercial 

 expansion of Argentina, and the Macedonian 

 question. The arrangements for the later part 

 of the season are so far provisional as to permit 

 the introduction of specially timely topics 



The interest shown last year in the Technical 

 Meetings, which were planned for scientific 

 men actively engaged in geographic work and 

 for persons specially interested in such work, 

 has led the Board to continue such meetings. 



The subject of the Afternoon, or Lenten, 

 Course will be announced in a later program. 



Regular Meetings 



of the Society for the presentation of technical 

 papers and discussion will be held on Friday 

 evenings, at S o'clock, commencing November 

 7, and alternating with the Popular Lectures. 

 As the new home of the Society will not be com- 

 pleted before January 15, 1903, these meetings 

 will be held for the present in the Assembly 

 Hall of the Cosmos Club The course has been 

 planned to form a series on the geographic 

 work of the great scientific bureaus of the gov- 

 ernment. Mr Richard U. Goode, Chairman of 

 the Committee on Technical Meetings, an- 

 nounces the following program: 



November 7. — " Some of the Administrative 

 and Industrial Problems of Porto Rico. ' ' Hon 

 Wm. F. Willoughby, Treasurer of Porto Rico. 



November 21.—' ' The work of the U. S- Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey " Hon. O. H. Tittmann, 

 Superintendent of U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 



December 5— "The Work of the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau." Dr Willis L. Moore, Chief 

 of U. S. Weather Bureau. 



December 19.— "The U. S. 

 Gen. A. W. Greely, Chief 

 U. S. A. 



Signal Corps." 

 Signal Officer, 



At later meetings the geographic work of the 

 Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, 

 of the Experiment Stations of the Agricultural 

 Department, of the Census Office, of the Naval 

 Observatory, of the Geological Survey, and of 

 the Library of Congress will be discussed. 



The Popular Course 



will be delivered in the National Rifles Armor}-, 

 G street between Ninth and Tenth streets 

 northwest, on Friday evenings, at 8 o'clock, 

 commencing November 14 and alternating with 

 the Technical Meetings, which will be held in 

 the Assembly Hall of Cosmos Club until the 

 new home of the Society on Sixteenth and M 

 streets is completed. 



The following dates have been definitely as- 

 signed: 



November 14. — "The Coal Resources of the 

 United States. " . Dr David T. Day, Chief of Di- 

 vision of Mineral Resources, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. (Illustrated.) 



November 29.* — "Explorations in the Arc- 

 tics, 1898-1902." Commander Robert E. Pearv, 

 U. S. N. (Illustrated. ) 



December 12. — "Argentina — Present and Fu- 

 ture." E. L. Corthell, C. E. (Illustrated.) 



January 9. — " The Turk and His Rebellious 

 Subjects." Mr William E. Curtis. (Illus- 

 trated. ) 



January 23.—" The Tragedy of Saiut Pierre. ' ' 

 Mr George Kennan. (Illustrated ) 



Provisional arrangements have also been 

 made for lectures on Colombia and the Isth- 

 mian Canal ;' America Before the Advent of 

 Man ; The Geographic Distribution of Insanity 

 in the United States ; Russia of Today (by 

 Paul du Chaillu), and a lecture by Mr John 

 Muir. 



The Lenten Course of five lectures will be de- 

 livered in Columbia Theater, F street, near 

 Twelfth, at 4.20 o'clock, on Wednesday after- 

 noons of February 11, iS, 25, and March 4, 11. 



The subject of this course and the speakers 

 assigned for the special topics will be an- 

 nounced in a later program. 



* Please note that this lecture is Saturday evening. 



