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information as to the convenience and 

 pleasure of such members be obtained in 

 time. Final information on these points 

 will be given in the preliminary program 

 of June, 1904. 



MEMBERSHIP 



Members of the Congress will be en- 

 titled to participate in all sessions and 

 excursions, and to attend all social 

 meetings in honor of the Congress ; 

 the}' will also (whether in attendance 

 or not) receive the publications of the 

 Congress, including the daily program 

 and the final volume of proceedings. 



Membership may be acquired on pay- 

 ment of $5 (25 francs, i pound, or 20 

 marks) to the committee of arrange- 

 ments. Persons not members of such 

 societies may acquire membership by a 

 similar payment and election by the 

 presidency. Ladies and minors accom- 

 panying members may be registered 

 as associates on payment of $2.50 (12 j4 

 francs, or 10 shillings, or 10 marks); 

 they shall enjoy all privileges of mem- 

 bers except the rights of voting and 

 of receiving publications. 



Geographers and their friends desir- 

 ous of attending the Congress or re- 

 ceiving its publications are requested to 

 signify their intention at the earliest 

 practicable date in order that subse- 

 quent announcements may be sent them 

 without delay, and that requisite ar- 

 rangements for transportation may be 

 effected. On receipt of subscriptions, 

 Members' and Associates' tickets will 

 be mailed to the subscribers. The priv- 

 ileges of the Congress, including the 

 excursions and the social gatherings, 

 can be extended only to holders of 

 tickets. 



It is earnestly hoped that the Congress 

 of 1904 ma}' be an assemblage of geo- 

 graphic and cognate institutions no less 

 than of individual geographers ; and to 

 this end a special invitation is extended to 

 such organizations to participate in the 

 Congress through delegates, on the basis 



of one for each 100 members up to the 

 maximum of 10. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The publications of the Congress will 

 be sent free to all institutions registered. 

 No charge will be made for the registra- 

 tion of institutions, though the Delegates 

 will be expected to subscribe as Mem- 

 bers; and in order that the list of affil- 

 iated institutions (to be issued in a later 

 announcement) may be worthy of full 

 confidence, the committee of arrange- 

 ments reserve the right to withhold the 

 name of any institution pending action 

 by the presidency. It is especially de- 

 sired that the geographic societies of the 

 Western Hemisphere may utilize the op- 

 portunity affordedby this Congress for 

 establishing closer relations with those 

 of the Old World, and to facilitate this 

 Spanish will be recognized as one of the 

 languages of the Congress, with French, 

 English, German, and Italian, in ac- 

 cordance with previous usage ; and 

 communications before the Congress 

 may be written in any one (or more) 

 of these languages. 



Institutions not strictly geographic in 

 character, libraries, universities, acade- 

 mies of science, and scientific societies 

 are especially invited to subscribe as 

 members in order to receive the publica- 

 tions of the Congress as issued. 



SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION 



The subjects for treatment and dis- 

 cussion in the Congress may be classi- 

 fied as follows : 



1. Physical Geography, including 

 Geomorphology, Meteorology, Hydrol- 

 ogy, etc. 



2. Mathematical Geography, includ- 

 ing Geodesy and Geophysics. 



3. Biogeography, including Botany 

 and Zoology in their geographic aspects. 



4. Anthropogeography, including 

 Ethnology. 



5. Descriptive Geography, including 

 Explorations and Surveys. 



