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between Chicago University and Field 

 Columbian Museum, will be found con- 

 venient ; the rates (European plan) are 

 from $1.00 to $2.50 per day. Tothose 

 preferring downtown hotels, the Audi- 

 torium and the Auditorium Annex are 

 recommended (European plan, $2.50 to 

 $5.00 per day). 



In St Louis the hotel headquarters 

 will be the Inside Inn ; the rates (Eu- 

 ropean plan) are $2.50 per day, and 

 $4.50 American plan. Persons desiring 

 accommodations at this hotel should 

 notify the Committee of Arrangements 

 as soon as possible, in order to insure 

 proper accommodations. 



PROGRAM 



The following general program for 

 the Congress is proposed by the Com- 

 mittee of Arrangements, subject to re- 

 vision by the Presidency after the first 

 meeting in Washington : 



Wednesday, September 7 



Evening : Informal reception at Hub- 

 bard Memorial Hall by the National 

 Geographic Society. 



Thursday, September 8 



Morning, 10 o'clock : Formal open- 

 ing of the Congress, George Washington 

 ■(Columbian) University Hall, 15th and 

 H Streets. 



Afternoon, 2.30 o'clock : Visits to 

 Scientific Bureaus. 



Evening, 8 o'clock : Lecture. 



Friday, September g 



Morning, 10 o'clock : General ses- 

 sion, devoted especially to governmental 

 surveys. 



Afternoon, 2.30 o'clock: Sectional 

 meetings. 



5 o'clock : Reception by Mrs Gardiner 

 Greene Hubbard at "Twin Oaks." 



Evening, S o'clock : Lecture by Prof. 

 Dr Er. von Drygalski. 



Saturday, September 10 



Morning, 10 o'clock : Sectional meet- 

 ings. 



Afternoon, 2.30 o'clock : Sectional 

 meetings. 



Evening, 8 o'clock : Reception by 

 President and Mrs. Peary. 



Sunday, September 11 



Members so desiring will have the 

 opportunity of spending a few hours on 

 an excursion boat, passing Mount Ver- 

 non and other points of geographic in- 

 terest on the lower Potomac. 



At 7 o'clock the Congress will take a 

 Pennsylvania Railway train at the Sixth 

 Street station, arriving in Philadelphia 

 at 10 p. m. 



Monday, September 12 



Leaving Broad Street station at 9 

 o'clock, the party will be conveyed, 

 under the guidance of members of the 

 Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 

 to Independence Hall. A brief visit 

 will be made to the rooms of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society, after which 

 the party will be driven to the Free 

 Museum of Science and Art of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. Follow- 

 ing an inspection of the museum, the 

 members of the Congress will be the 

 guests of the University at a luncheon 

 at 1 o'clock at Houston Hall. 



Preceding a field meeting in Fair- 

 mount Park, brief addresses will be 

 made by local and other geographers. 

 At 2.30 p. m. the foreign delegates and 

 foreign members and associates will 

 enter coaches and be driven through 

 Fairmount Park and along the Wissa- 

 hickon drive to the Philadelphia Coun- 

 try Club, where a subscription dinner 

 will be tendered all foreign guests at 

 6 o'clock in the evening. The party 

 will leave Broad Street station, in Pull- 

 man cars, for New York later in the 

 evening. 



Tuesday, September 13 



Morning, 10 o'clock: General session 

 in the lecture hall of the American Ge- 

 ographical Society building, 15 West 

 Eighty-first street, devoted to oceanog- 



