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The National Geographic Magazine 



so quietly that its establishment has been 

 almost unnoticed by many well-informed 

 people outside of China. 



The wisdom of the Tibetan war is 

 doubted by Mr Crosby, and he claims that 

 his views are in accord with those of many 

 Englishmen whose opinions carry weight. 



The preface contains a bibliography 

 and there are several appendices, one be- 

 ing a collection of Tibetan songs which 

 show "the characteristics of a people who 

 are as yet very unfamiliar to us." 



THE ROOSEVELT GLACIER 



New York, February 19, 1906. 

 Editor National Geographic Magazine. 



Dear Sir: I wish to report to you the exist- 

 ence of five glaciers in the Wind River Moun- 

 tains of Wyoming. These glaciers were visited 

 by Mr Howard Fuguet, of Philadelphia, and 

 myself, with our guides, in September, 1904, 

 and September, 1905. After careful inquiry we 

 are convinced that we are the first persons to 

 visit these glaciers. I have talked with many 

 persons resident in that portion of Wyoming, 

 and last summer wrote the Geological Survey 

 in regard to them, but have failed to find that 

 they have ever been visited save by our party. 



They are situated on the head of Green 

 River, near Fremont's and the neighboring 

 peaks. The three main ones lie in crescent 

 shape on the north and east sides of Fremont's 

 and the adjacent peaks, and are of considerable 

 size, measuring roughly three miles around 

 the curve of the crescent, one mile in width, 

 and two hundred feet in thickness. Except in 

 seasons of light snowfall, the rock ridges which 

 separate these glaciers are covered with snow, 

 giving the appearance of one large glacier. 



The President has very kindly given his per- 

 mission to call these the Roosevelt Glaciers, 

 and we have so named them. The other two 

 glaciers lie, one three miles to the west and 

 the other four or five miles to the north of the 

 main ones, and are very much smaller. 

 Yours truly, 



C. M. Taintor. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Wednesday, April 4 — Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall, 8 p. m. "The Fundamental Principles of 

 Buddhism." By Rt. Rev. Shaku Soyen Lord 

 Abbot, of Yengakuji Temple, Kamakura, 

 Japan. Dr D. T. Suzuki, of Tokio, will act as 

 interpreter. 



Friday, April 6 — Hubbard Memorial Hall, 

 ■8 p. m. "Photographing Wild Game with the 



Flashlight." By Hon. George Shiras, 3d. Some 

 remarkable photographs by Mr Shiras will be 

 shown on lantern slides. 



Saturday, April 7 — National Rifles' Armory, 

 920 G St., 8 p. m. "The Cannibal Regions of 

 the West Central Sudan." By Dr H. Karl W. 

 Kumm, F. R. G S. Illustrated. The lecturer 

 has been for several years a medical missionary 

 in the Sudan. He will incidentally describe the 

 "sleeping sickness." 



Tuesday, April 10 — Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall, 8 p. m. "The Reduction of the Samaon 

 Root, an Evolutionary Study in Archetypal 

 Philology." By William Churchill. 



Monday, April 16 — Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall, 8 p. m. "The Home of the Indo-Euro- 

 pean." By G M. Boiling, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Greek Literature and Comparative Philology 

 and Sanskrit in the Catholic University of 

 America. 



Friday, April 20 — Hubbard Memorial Hall, 

 8 p. m. "The Protection of the United States 

 Against Invasion by Disease." .By Dr Walter 

 Wyman, Surgeon-General Marine Hospital 

 Service. 



It is hoped that official business will permit 

 the Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Charles J. 

 Bonaparte, to address the Society during May. 

 The address by Mr George Kennan, previously 

 announced for April, has been postponed until 

 November, as Mr Kennan does not return from 

 the Far East until the latter part of May. 



The following committees for the year 1906 

 have been appointed by President Willis L. 

 Moore : 



Executive Committee — President, Vice-Pres- 

 ident, Treasurer, Secretary, Messrs Henry F. 

 Blount, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, and Alfred J. 

 Henry. 



Admissions — O. P. Austin and Gilbert H. 

 Grosvenor. 



Communications (Lectures and Meetings) — 

 Gilbert H. Grosvenor. 



Excursions — Henry F. Blount, F. V. Coville, 

 Gilbert H. Grosvenor, and Otto Luebkert. 



Finance — Charles J. Bell, John Joy Edson, 

 and Gilbert H. Grosvenor. 



Library — O. P. Austin, Gilbert H. Grosve- 

 nor, and H. H. Kimball. 



Publications — Gilbert H. Grosvenor, A. W. 

 Greely, W J McGee, C. Hart Merriam, Willis 

 L. Moore, O. H." Tittmann, O. P. Austin, Alex- 

 ander Graham Bell, David T. Day, Alfred H. 

 Brooks, Angelo Heilprin, R. D. Salisbury, G. 

 K. Gilbert, Alexander McAdie, Almon Gunni- 

 son, and David G. Fairchild. 



Research — Henry Gannett, chairman ; C. 

 Hart Merriam, F. V Coville, A. J. Henry, O. 

 H. Tittmann, C. W. Hayes, L. A. Bauer, W. H. 

 Holmes, O. P. Austin, and C. M. Chester (with 

 power of the chairman to add to its members). 



