PROGRAM OF MEETINGS OF NATIONAL 

 GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, .903-1904 



THE National Geographic Society has re- 

 cently moved into its new home, the 

 Gardiner Greene Hubbard Memorial 

 Hull, Sixteenth and M streets. As the build- 

 ing is not entirely completed, the formal open- 

 ing of the hall will be deferred for the present. 



The National Geographic Society presents 

 during the season of 1903-1904 three courses 

 of meetings — a Popular Series of 10 illustrated 

 lectures, a Scientific Series of 10 meetings, and 

 an Afternoon Series of 5 popular lectures. 



The Society aims to present in the Popular 

 Course subjects of a geographic character that 

 possess an immediate interest for the public. 



The Scientific Meetings are planned particu- 

 larly for men actively engaged in geographic 

 work. While these meetings are designed for 

 scientific workers, they have proved during 

 the last two winters of great interest to a large 

 number of others, who do not profess to be 

 geographers, but who wish to follow what is 

 being done by the scientific departments of 

 the government and by specialists throughout 

 the United States. 



POPULAR COURSE 



The lectures in the Popular Course will be 

 delivered in the National Rifles Armory, 920 

 G street, at 8 p. m., on the following dates : 



Saturday, October 24. — "Arctic Exploration. ' ' 

 By Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. 

 Illustrated. 



Friday, November 13. — "On the action of 

 Radium, Roentgen Rays, and Ultra Violet 

 Light upon minerals, with radium of 300,000 

 and 1,800,000 activity." By Mr George F. 

 Kunz and Dr Charles Baskerville. 



Friday, November 27. — "Taking the Census 

 of the Filipinos." By Mr Henry Gannett, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey Illustrated. 



Saturday, December 12. — "Marches and 

 Movements of Arnold and AndreV' B3' Mr 

 W. W. Ellsworth, of the Century Co. Illus- 

 trated. 



Announcement of definite dates for the fol- 

 lowing lectures in this course will be made later: 



"Joys of the Trail," by Mr Hamlin Gar- 

 land, author of "The Captain of the Gray 

 Horse Troop," etc. Illustrated. 



"Conditions in Macedonia," by Dr Edwin 

 A. Grosvenor, of Amherst College. Illustrated . 



"The Louisiana Purchase Exposition," by 

 Hon. David R. Francis, President of the Lou- 

 isiana Purchase Exposition. Illustrated. 



' ' Travels in Arabia and Along the Persian 

 Gulf," by David G. Fairchild, Special Agent, 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Il- 

 lustrated. 



Provisional arrangements have also been 

 made for addresses on — 



Little Known Peoples of Mexico. 



Russia and Japan in Korea. 



The Alaskan Boundary Decision. 



SCIENTIFIC COURSE 



The first three meetings of this course will 

 be held in the Assembly Hall' of the Cosmos 

 Club, Fifteenth and H streets. The succeed- 

 ing meetings will be at the new home of the 

 Society, Hubbard Memorial Hall. 



November 20. — " European Methods of 

 Checking Advancing Sand Dunes." A. S. 

 Hitchcock, Assistant Agrostologist, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



December 4. — "The Work of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry." Dr B. T. Galloway. 



December 18. — " Early Spanish Cartograph\- 

 of the New World," by Prof. E. L- Stevenson, 

 of Rutgers College. 



At later meetings the geographical work of 

 the Bureau of Insular Affairs, of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, of the National Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, of the Biological Survey, of the Bureau 

 of Immigration, and of the Bureau of Statistics 

 of the Department of Commerce and Labor 

 will be discussed. 



AFTERNOON COURSE 



The general subject of the Afternoon Course 

 of popular lectures is " The Growth of Diplo- 

 macy." The special topics and the names of 

 the speakers will be announced in a later pro- 

 gram. The first of the series will be given on 

 Tuesday, February 23, and the succeeding 

 lectures on March 1, 8, 15, and 22. 



These lectures will be illustrated. 



LECTURE TICKETS 



Each member of the Society can purchase 

 one season ticket, admitting two persons to 

 all lectures, for three dollars. 



Persons not members of the Society may 

 purchase one ticket, admitting two persons to 

 all lectures, for six dollars. 



Single admission tickets, at fifty cents each, 

 may be obtained at Hubbard Memorial Hall 

 or at the lecture-hall door. 



APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP 



Applications for membership in the Society 

 should be sent to the Secretary, who will pre- 

 sent all nominations to the Board of Managers 

 for action by them. The dues for members 

 are two dollars per annum. All members re- 

 ceive the National Geographic Magazine, 

 an illustrated monthly, issued by the Society. 

 Annual dues ma}' be commuted and life mem- 

 bership acquired by the payment of fifty dol- 

 lars. The membership fee of two dollars, for 

 persons elected to the Society in November 

 and December, includes all dues to January I, 



