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15 days as compared with the vo} T age 

 by way of the Horn. 



The coastwise trade between the At- 

 lantic and the Pacific seaboard of the 

 United States, so profitable prior to the 

 construction of the transcontinental 

 railways, has almost vanished from the 

 sea, the traffic in coal alone surviving. 

 Whether it can be revived by throwing 

 the canal open to sailing vessels of small 

 tonnage, coasting schooners, and the 

 like, is a problem. The saving of time 

 in this instance would be considerable, 



the duration of the voyage between New 

 York and San Francisco by way of Cape 

 Horn amounting to practically the same 

 thing as the voyage from the Channel, 

 viz, 140 days outward and 130 days 

 homeward, while the passage from New 

 York to Colon may be made in 20 days 

 and the return in 28 days, giving for 

 the total sailing time from New York 

 to San Francisco via the canal 74 days, 

 and for the return 85 days, which means 

 a saving of 66 days and 45 days respect- 

 ively. 



THE NEW HOME OF THE NATIONAL 

 GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



AT a meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers, March 5, Dr W J Mc- 

 Gee, for many years past the 

 active Vice-President of the Society, 

 and the head of the Department of 

 Anthropology and Archeology of the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was 

 unanimously elected President to suc- 

 ceed Dr Alexander Graham Bell, who 

 resigned some months since in order to 

 devote all his time to his experiments 

 with kites. At the same meeting Mr 

 G. K. Gilbert, Geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, was unanimously 

 elected Vice-President. Both Dr McGee 

 and Mr Gilbert have been actively as- 

 sociated with the work of the Society 

 since its organization in 1888. A por- 

 trait of Dr McGee was published in this 

 Magazine in October, 1901, and of Mr 

 Gilbert in July, 1900. 



The new home of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall, was formally opened on the even- 

 ing of March 12. The event was ob- 

 served by a reception to the members 



of the Society resident in Washington 

 by Mrs Hubbard and her family, who 

 have erected the building as a memorial 

 to Hon. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, 

 President of the Society from its organi- 

 zation until his death in December, 1897. 

 On the first floor are offices for the 

 Board of Managers, President, Treas- 

 urer, Secretary, and Editor. The sec- 

 ond floor is a large room, to be used as 

 a library, and also as a meeting place 

 for the scientific meetings of the Soci- 

 ety. In the basement there is a dark- 

 room and rooms for the files of the So- 

 ciety. Several views of the building are 

 shown on the succeeding pages. The 

 cornerstone of the building was laid on 

 April 26, 1902.* 



It is hoped that all members of the 

 National Geographic Society, when they 

 come to Washington, will visit the home 

 of the Society and make it as far as pos- 

 sible their headquarters while they are 

 in the city. 



*See National Geographic Magazine, 

 May, 1902, p. 174. 



