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The National Geographic Magazine 



February 3.— "The Philippines." 

 The Secretary of War, Hon. Wm H. 

 Taft, formerly Civil Governor of the 

 Philippine Islands, has accepted the in- 

 vitation of the Society to deliver the 

 address on this subject, provided that 

 the demands of public service do not 

 interfere. 



February 17. — "Manchuria and 

 Korea." By Mr Edwin V. Morgan, 

 U. S. Consul to Dalny. Illustrated. 



March JO.— " The Panama Canal." 

 Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., 

 Superintendent of the Naval Observa- 

 tory. Illustrated. 



March 24. — "The Commercial Prize 

 of the Orient and . its Relation to the 

 Commerce of the United States." By 

 Hon. O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau 

 of Statistics. Illustrated. 

 • March 31. — "From Lexington to 

 Yorktown. ' ' By Mr W. W. Ellsworth , 

 of the Century Company. Illustrated. 



April 14. — " Fighting the Boll 

 Weevil." By DrE.O. Howard, Chief of 

 the Bureau of Entomology. Illustrated. 



Apri' 21.— "Niagara Falls." By Dr 

 G. K. ' xilbert, Vice President National 

 Geographic Society. Illustrated. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



The meetings of this course will be 

 held at the new home of the Society, 

 Hubbard Memorial Hall, Sixteenth and 

 M streets, on Friday evenings, of the 

 following dates. 



December 2. — i. Geography of Alas- 

 ka. By Dr Alfred H. Brooks, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



2. The Alaskan Telegraph System. 

 By General A. W. Greely, U.S. A., Chief 

 Signal Officer. 



3. The Salmon Fisheries of Alaska. 

 By Dr Barton W. Evermann, of the 

 Bureau of Fisheries. 



4. Introducing Reindeer into Alaska 

 from Siberia. By Dr William Hamilton, 

 of the Bureau of Education. 



December 16. — "A Geologist in 

 China." By Mr Bailey Willis. 



"A Naturalist in China." By Dr 

 C. E. Marlatt. 



"Some Remarks About Tibet and 

 Chinese Turkestan." By Mr O. T. 

 Crosby. 



December 30. — General subject, "The 

 Rocky Mountains. " By Mr Robert H. 

 Chapman, Mr W. H. Osgood, and Mr 

 E. C. Barnard. 



Thursday, January 12 t 1905. — Gen- 

 eral subject, " The Reclamation Ser- 

 vice." MrF. H. Newell, Chief Engi- 

 neer, and other engineers of the Recla- 

 mation Service, will describe the different 

 irrigation works now being constructed. 



January 13. — Annual meeting. Re- 

 ports of officers and elections. 



January 27. — General subject, ' ' The 

 American Deserts." 



1. Vegetation. By MrF. V. Coville, 

 Botanist of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



2. Physiography. By Dr G.K.Gilbert. 



3. Introducing the Date Palm. By 

 Mr W. T. Zwingle. 



February 10. — General subject, ' ' Pro- 

 gress in Animal Husbandry." There 

 will be papers by Mr George M. Rom- 

 mel, Mr G. Fayette Thompson, and 

 others of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, on the work and plans of the 

 Department for producing distinctive 

 American breeds of Horses, on the An- 

 gora Goat, the Fat Tailed Sheep, the 

 Barbadoes Woolless Sheep, on the in- 

 troduction of the Bos indicus, etc. 



February 24. — General subject, ' ' The 

 Botanical Investigations of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture." By Mr F. V. 

 Coville, Botanist , and members of his staff 



March 3. — General subject, "Pro- 

 gress in Plant Physiology. ' ' . Papers by 

 Dr George T. Moore and others on ' c In- 

 oculating the Ground," " Protecting 

 Municipal Water Supply Systems," etc. 



March 17. — General subject," Japan." 



The Geography of Japan. By Mr 

 Eki Hioki, First Secretary of the Japa- 

 nese Legation. 



The Fisheries of Japan. By Dr Hugh 

 M. Smith. 



Agriculture in Japan. By Mr David 

 G. Fairchild. 



April 7. — General subject, 



" Forestry." 



Papers by Mr Gifford Pinchot, Mr 

 Overton Price, and others, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Forestry, and a paper on 

 Japanese Bamboos, by Mr David G. 

 Fairchild. 



