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The National Geographic Magazine 



San Diego, California. On the whole, it is a 

 rather hot place ; but then it is "just over 

 the border." A trail, which in some places 

 has been made a fair cart road, extends from 

 Tia Juaua along the whole extent of the 

 peninsula to La Paz, the most important vil- 

 lage, and thence to Lower San Jose. A Mexi- 



can colony might settle at various places on 

 the peninsula and prosper fairly at fruit 

 farming, but it is doubtful if a single location 

 exists where an American colony could do 

 anything but starve. Some of the mesa lands 

 have an elevation of 4,000 feet. As a rule, 

 they furnish fair grazing. 



J. W. Redway. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Popular Meetings 



National Rifles Armory, 920 G street, 

 N. W., 8 p. m. 



Friday, February 2 — "The Greek Monas- 

 teries at Mt Athos and the Greek Church." 

 Illustrated. Dr Edwin A. Grosvenor, pro- 

 fessor of international law in Amherst Col- 

 lege. The Mt Athos monasteries were founded 

 1,500 years ago. Ten thousand monks live 

 there now. No woman nor any female 

 creature — not even a cow or a pussy cat — 

 has set foot within the grounds during 1,500 

 years. 



Saturday, February 10 — "A Flamingo City 

 and Bird Life in the Barbados." Illustrated. 

 Dr Frank M. Chapman, American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Friday, February 16 — "Africa from Sea to 

 Center." Illustrated. Mr Herbert L. Bridg- 

 man. Africa in transition today challenges 

 the attention of the world. Few intelligent 

 Americans know to what extent its possibili- 

 ties have been developed since Livingstone's 

 day, a development that in rapidity prom- 

 ises to exceed that of North America. 



Saturday, February 17, at Hubbard Memo- 

 rial Hall — "Across South America." Illus- 

 trated. Mr Alvah D. James. 



Tuesday February 20 — "My Captivity in 

 Morocco." Illustrated. Mr Ion Perdicaris. 



Friday February 23 — "The Personal 

 Washington." Illustrated. Mr W. W. Ells- 

 worth of the Century Company. 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 collec- 

 tion of prints, manuscripts, and letters refer- 

 ring to the personal side of Washington 

 ever brought together. 



Friday, March 2 — "Our Immigrants: Where 

 They Come from, What They Are, and 



What They do After They Get Here." Illus- 

 trated. Hon. F. P. Sargent, Commissioner 

 General of Immigration. 



Thursday, March 8— "The Russian Peas- 

 ant." By Frank G. Carpenter. Illustrated. 



Friday, March 16 — "Oriental Markets and 

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

 U. S. Bureau of Statistics. Illustrated. 



Friday, March 30 — "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. 



Tuesday, April 13 — It is hoped that official 

 business will permit the Secretary of the 

 Navy, Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, to 

 address the Society on "The American 

 Navy." 



Scientific Meetings 



Hubbard Memorial Hall, 8 p. m. 



Friday, February 9 — "The Introduction of 

 Foreign Plants." By Mr David G. Fair- 

 child, Agricultural Explorer, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Friday, March 9 — "The United States 

 Bureau of the Census." By Hon. S. N. D. 

 North, Director, Bureau of the Census. 



Friday, March 23 — "The Death Valley.' r 

 By Mr Robert H. Chapman, U. S. GeologicaL 

 Survey. 



Friday, April 6 — "Hunting with the 

 Camera." By Hon. George Shiras, Member 

 of Congress from the third district of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Friday, April 20 — "The Protection of the 

 United States Against Invasion by Disease."" 

 By Dr Walter Wyman, Surgeon GeneraL 

 Marine Hospital Service. 



