EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, 1904. 



THE Executive Committee of the 

 Seventh International Geog- 

 raphical Congress, held in Ber- 

 lin in 1899, having voted to convoke its 

 next session in Washington, the National 

 Geographic Society, as the organization 

 responsible for the management of the 

 sessions in the United States, will wel- 

 come the Eighth Congress and its friends 

 in September, 1904. 



Geographers and promoters of geog- 

 raphy throughout the world, especially 

 members of geographic societies and 

 cognate institutions of scientific charac- 

 ter, are cordially invited to assemble in 

 Washington, D. C, Septembers, 1904, 

 for the first international meeting of 

 geographers in the Western Hemisphere. 



On the invitation of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, the following societies 

 join in welcoming the Congress, and 

 undertake to cooperate toward its suc- 

 cess, especially in so far as sessions to be 

 held in their respective cities are con- 

 cerned : 



The American Geographical Society. 



The Geographical Society of Phila- 

 delphia. 



The Appalachian Mountain Club. 



The Geographical Society of the 

 Pacific. 



The Sierra Club. 



The American Alpine Club. 



The Harvard Travellers' Club. 



The Geographic Society of Baltimore. 



The Geographic Society of Chicago. 



The Geographical Society of California 



The Mazamas. 



The Peary Arctic Club. 



SESSIONS AND EXCURSIONS 



The Congress will convene in Wash- 

 ington on Thursday, September 8, in 

 the new home of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, and will hold sessions 

 on the 9th and 10th, the latter under the 

 auspices of the Geographic Society of 



Baltimore. Leaving Washington on the 

 1 2th, the Members, Associates, and 

 guests of the Congress will be enter- 

 tained during that day by the Geograph- 

 ical Society of Philadelphia, and on the 

 13th, 14th, and 15th by the American 

 Geographical Society in New York, 

 where scientific sessions will be held ; on 

 the 1 6th they will have the opportunity 

 of visiting Niagara Falls (en route west- 

 ward by special train) and on the 1 7th 

 will be entertained by the Geographic 

 Society of Chicago, and on Monday and 

 Tuesday, September 19 and 20, they will 

 be invited to participate in the Inter- 

 national Congress of Arts and Science 

 connected with the World's Fair in St. 

 Louis. Arrangements will be made here 

 for visiting exhibits of geographic in- 

 terest. In case any considerable number 

 of Members and Associates so desire, a 

 Far- west excursion will be provided from 

 St Louis to the City of Mexico, thence 

 to Santa Fe ; thence to the Grand Canyon 

 of the Colorado, and on to San Francisco 

 and the Golden Gate, where the western 

 geographic societies will extend special 

 hospitality ; afterward returning by way 

 of Mt Shasta and Portland and through 

 the northern Rocky Mountains and the 

 interior plains to the eastern ports. 



If the membership and finances war- 

 rant, the foreign delegates will be the 

 guests of the Congress from Washing- 

 ton to St Louis via Baltimore, Phila- 

 delphia, New York, Niagara Falls, and 

 Chicago. On the general excursion 

 special terms will be secured, reducing 

 the aggregate cost of transportation, 

 with sleeping-car accommodations and 

 meals materially below the customary 

 rates. It will be necessary to limit the 

 number of persons on the Far- west ex- 

 cursion. It is planned also to secure 

 special rates for transportation of foreign 

 members from one or more European 

 ports to New York, provided requisite 



