NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



POPULAR MEETINGS 

 National Rifles' Armory, 920 G Street 



January 5— "Russia and the Russian 

 People." By Mr Melville E. Stone, Gen- 

 eral Manager of the Associated Press. 



It will be remembered that it was Mr 

 Stone who two years ago persuaded the 

 Czar Nicholas to grant freedom from 

 the censor to foreign correspondence 

 from St Petersburg. 



January 19— "An Attempt at an In- 

 terpretation of Japanese Character." By 

 Hon. Eki Hioki, First Secretary of the 

 Tapanese Legation. 



January 25— "The Ziegler Polar Ex- 

 pedition of 1903-1905." By Messrs W. 

 S. Champ, Anthony Fiala, and W. J. 

 Peters. 



February 2 — "Austria Hungary." By 

 Edwin A. Grosvenor, EL. D., Professor 

 of International Law in Amherst College, 

 author of "Constantinople," "Contempo- 

 rary History," etc. 



February 10 — "A Flamingo City." By 

 Dr Frank M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Illustrated. 



February 16 — "Africa from Sea to 

 Center." By Mr Herbert L. Bridgman. 

 Illustrated. 



Africa in transition today challenges 

 the attention of the world. Few intelli- 

 gent Americans know to what extent its 

 possibilities have been developed since 

 Livingstone's day, a development that in 

 rapidity promises to exceed that of North 

 America. 



February 20 — "China." By Hon. 

 Charles Denby, of the State Department, 

 and for many years resident in China. 



February 23 — "The Personal Wash- 

 ington." By Mr W. W. Ellsworth, of 

 the Century Company. Illustrated. 



This is not a lecture in the ordinary 

 sense of the word, but it is an exhibition, 

 through the medium of the stereopticon, 

 of the greatest collection of prints, manu- 

 scripts, and letters referring to the per- 

 sonal side of Washington ever brought 

 together. 



March 2 — "Our Immigrants: Where 

 They Come from, What They Are, and 

 What They Do After They Get Here." 

 By Hon. F. P. Sargent, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner General of Immigration. Illus- 

 trated. 



March 16 — "Oriental Markets and 

 Market Places." By Hon. O. P. Austin, 

 Chief U. S. Bureau of Statistics. Illus- 

 trated. 



March 30 — It is hoped that official 

 business will permit the Secretary of the 

 Navy, Honorable Charles J. Bonaparte, 

 to address the Society on "The American 

 Navy." 



April 13 — "The Regeneration of Ko- 

 rea by Japan." By Mr George Kennan. 

 Illustrated. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 

 Hubbard Memorial Hall, 8 p. m. 



January 12 — Annual meeting. Re- 

 ports and elections. "Progress in the 

 Reclamation of the West." By Mr F. 

 H. Newell, Chief Engineer Reclamation 

 Service. 



January 26 — "The Carnegie Institu- 

 tion." By President R. S. Woodward. 



February 9 — "The Introduction of 

 Foreign Plants." By Mr David G. Fair- 

 child, Agricultural Explorer, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



February 24 — "Hunting with the 

 Camera." By Hon. George Shiras, Mem- 

 ber of Congress from 3d District, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



March 9 — "The United States Bureau 

 of the Census." By Hon. S. N. D. North, 

 Director. 



March 23— "The Death Valley." By 

 Mr Robert H. Chapman, U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey. 



April 6 — "The Total Eclipse of the 

 Sun, July, 1905, as Observed in Spain." 

 By Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, 

 U. S. N., Superintendent U. S. Naval 

 Observatory. 



April 20 — "The Protection of the 

 United States Against Invasion by Dis- 

 ease." By Dr Walter Wyman, Surgeon- 

 General Marine Hospital Service. 



