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The National Geographic Magazine 



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SOCIETIES AND DELEGATES 



It is hoped that the Eighth Interna- 

 tional Geographic Congress may be an 

 assemblage of geographic and cognate 

 institutions no less than of individual 

 geographers ; and to this end a special 

 invitation has been extended to such 

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COMMUNICATIONS 



The subjects for treatment and dis- 

 cussion in the Congress have been 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. 



6. Geographic technology, including 

 cartography, bibliography, etc. 



7. Commercial and industrial geog- 

 raphy. 



