Geographic Literature 



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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



ON May 20 the National Geographic 

 Society moves into its new home, 

 the Hubbard Memorial Building, which 

 has been erected as a memorial to Hon. 

 Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the first 

 president of the Society, by Mrs Hub- 

 bard and her children and grandchil- 

 dren. The Society has now a member- 

 ship of 2,600 in the United States. 

 Every state and territory is represented 

 on the membership roll. After May 20 

 the address of the Society will be Hub- 

 bard Memorial Building, Sixteenth and 

 M streets, Washington, D. C. 



The Annual Excursion of the National 

 Geographic Society will be on Saturday, 

 May 9, to Annapolis, Maryland. Mem- 

 bers and their friends will leave Wash- 

 ington on a special train at 9 a. m., 

 reaching Annapolis at about 10.15. 

 The morning will be spent in witness- 

 ing the naval drills and in inspecting 

 the grounds. The Superintendent of 

 the Naval Academy has very kindly 

 detailed some members of the naval 

 force to guide the part3*. Immediately 

 after luncheon, which will be served in 

 Carvel Hall at 12.30 p. m., Elihu F. 

 Reiley, Esq., of Annapolis, will address 

 the Society. He will review some of 

 the more noted points of interest in the 

 history of the famous old town. Three 

 of the four signers, from Maryland, of 

 the Declaration of Independence were 



residents of Annapolis. After the 

 address the party will visit the historic 

 scenes in the town and return to Wash- 

 ington late in the afternoon. The 

 excursion committee of the Society con- 

 sists of Colonel Henry F. Blount, Dr F. 

 V. Coville, and Mr Otto J. J. Luebkert. 



Dr Jean Charcot is building an ice-re- 

 sisting ship at Saint Malo, France. She 

 is to carry 17 men and to have stowage- 

 room for two years' provisions. Dr 

 Charcot plans to sail the middle of May 

 for the island of Jan Mayen, and then 

 to explore the region around Nova 

 Zembla and Franz Josef Land. It is a 

 summer trip only, as he hopes to be 

 back by the first of October of this year. 

 Capt. de Gerlache, who commanded the 

 Belgica South Polar Expedition of 1897- 

 '98, goes with him as the oceanogra- 

 pher of the party. 



Mr Ellsworth Huntington, A. B„ Be- 



loit, 1897, has lately been awarded the 

 Gill memorial by the Royal Geograph- 

 ical Society of London for his explo- 

 rations of the Euphrates River while 

 science teacher in Euphrates College, 

 Harput, Turkey, 1 897-1901. Since 

 1901, Mr Huntington has been a stu- 

 dent in the Graduate School of Harvard 

 University. He has just been appointed 

 Research Assistant by the Carnegie In- 

 stitution, and now goes with Professor 

 Davis to join Professor Pumpelly for a 

 summer of exploration in Turkestan. 



GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



Antarctica. By Edwin Swift Balch, 

 author of " Mountain Exploration," 

 ' ' Glacieres or Freezing Caverns, "etc. 

 With three large maps. Pp. 230, 

 7x11 inches. Philadelphia : Allen, 

 Lane & Scott. 1902. 

 The present volume presents a suc- 

 cinct history of south polar exploration. 

 It is written in most entertaining style, 

 giving a graphic account of the battles 



of the explorers of sixty years ago in 

 their small sailing vessels. A volume 

 that would unravel the tangled and im- 

 perfect records of south polar explora- 

 tion has long been needed. Mr Balch' s 

 book is especially welcome because of 

 the present interest in the far south, 

 where four ably led and ably equipped 

 expeditions are at work. 



The author aims to particularly em- 



