GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT 



EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

 CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, 1904 



THE attention of the members of the National Geographic Society and all 

 persons interested in the science of geography is invited to the following 

 General Announcement of the Committee of Arrangements of the Eighth 

 International Geographic Congress. Those intending to become members of the 

 Congress should address the Secretary of the Committee of Arrangements, J. H. 

 McCormick, Hubbard Memorial Hall, Washington, D. C. 



Hubbard Memorial Hall, 

 Washington, D. C, U. S. A., June, 1904. 



The Executive Committee of the Sev- 

 enth International Geographic Congress, 

 held in Berlin in 1899, having voted to 

 convoke the Eighth Congress in Wash- 

 ington, a Committee of Arrangements 

 was, at the instance of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, organized on behalf of 

 several geographic societies and clubs, 

 viz : 



National Geographic Society. 



American Geographical Society. 



Geographical Society of Philadelphia. 



Geographic Society of Chicago. 



Geographical Society of Baltimore. 



Geographical Society of the Pacific. 



Geographical Society of California. 



Peary Arctic Club. 



Appalachian Mountain Club. 



American Alpine Club. 



Mazamas. 



Sierra Club. 



Harvard Travelers' Club. 



After issuing a brief announcement 

 through the scientific press late in 1903, 

 this Committee of Arrangements, in 

 January, 1904, circulated a preliminary 

 announcement inviting geographic so- 

 cieties and cognate institutions and all 

 persons interested in any phase of geo- 

 graphic science to participate in the 

 tii st international congress to be held 

 in the western hemisphere in September 

 of this year. Gratifying replies have 



been received; several hundred individ- 

 uals and institutions have already regis- 

 tered as members of the Congress ; a 

 number of delegates have been appointed 

 to represent geographic societies in dif- 

 ferent parts of the world; notice of the 

 appointment of a number of govern- 

 mental representatives has been re- 

 ceived, while titles of nearly 200 papers 

 have been submitted for presentation 

 before the Congress. 



The plans of the Committee of Ar- 

 rangements and other committees are 

 now sufficiently advanced to warrant 

 the issue of this general announcement 

 and to extend a cordial and specific in- 

 vitation to all persons interested in the 

 science of geography to become mem- 

 bers of the Congress and participate in 

 its proceedings. 



TIMES AND PLACES OF CONVENING 



After assembling informally in Wash- 

 ington on the evening of September 7, 

 1904, the Congress will formally con- 

 vene on Thursday, September 8, at 10 

 o'clock. It will reconvene in Philadel- 

 phia on Monday, September 12, at 9 

 o'clock ; and again in New York on 

 Tuesday, September 13, at 10 o'clock. 

 After a field meeting at Niagara Falls 

 on Friday, September 16, it will reas- 

 semble in Chicago on Saturday, Sep- 



