PROGRAM OF MEETINGS OF THE NATIONAL 

 GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 1906-1907 



The completed program of the popular 

 and technical meetings of the National 

 Geographic Society for 1906— 1907 is 

 given below. 



The annual banquet of the Society 

 will be held December 15, at the New 

 Willard, Washington, D. C. It is hoped 

 that many members from neighboring 

 cities will attend. 



The Library of the Society is open 

 to members during office hours. The 

 Society is receiving the geographical, 

 scientific, and popular periodicals, and 

 has a considerable number of useful geo- 

 graphical books. 



THE POPULAR COURSE 



The general subject of the popular 

 course of addresses for 1906-1907 will 

 be "Pan-America." 



The addresses in this Course will be 

 delivered in the National Rifles Ar- 

 mory, 920 G street, at 8 p. m., on Friday 

 evenings of the following dates. 



November 9 — "Colombia — a Land of 

 Great Possibilities." By Hon. John 

 Barrett, U. S. Minister to Colombia. 

 Illustrated. 



November 16 — "Digging the Ditch." 

 By Dr Willis Fletcher Johnson, Asso- 

 ciate Editor of the New York Tribune 

 and author of "Four Centuries of the 

 Panama Canal." Illustrated. 



This will be a popular account of the 

 greatest engineering feat of all ages, 

 with a description of the Republic of 

 Panama and of the Panamans. 



November 30 — "Beautiful Ecuador." 

 By Hon. Joseph W. Lee, U. S. Minister 

 to Ecuador. Illustrated. 



December 7 — "The New China." By 

 Hon. John W. Foster, formerly Secre- 

 tary of State and Chairman of the Chi- 

 nese delegation to the Hague. 



December 14 — "Russia and the Duma." 

 By Mr William E. Curtis. Illustrated. 



December 21 — "Our Immigrants: 

 Where They Come From, What They 

 Are, and What They Do After They 

 Get Here." By Hon. F. P. Sargent, 

 Commissioner General of Immigration. 

 Illustrated. 



January 4 — "Camping Expeditions 



in the Canadian Rockies." By Mr 

 Howard Du Bois. 



January 18 — "The Guianas." By Prof. 

 Angelo Heilprin, of Yale University. 

 Illustrated. 



Very little is known about this fasci- 

 nating section of South America — one 

 of the most beautiful and luxuriant re- 

 gions of the globe. 



January 19 (Saturday) — "Two Thou- 

 sand Miles in the Saddle Through Co- 

 lombia and Ecuador." By Hon. John 

 Barrett, U. S. Minister to Colombia. 

 Illustrated. 



January 25 — "Bolivia — a Country 

 Without a Debt." By the Bolivian 

 Minister, Sefior F. Calderon. Illus- 

 trated. 



February 1 — "The Rising Pacific Em- 

 pire." By Hon. George C. Perkins, U. 

 S. Senator from California. 



February 8 — "An American in Cuba." 

 By Mr Walter D. Wilcox. Illustrated. 



Mr Wilcox is well known to mem- 

 bers of the National Geographic Soci- 

 ety because of his previous wonderfully 

 illustrated lectures on the Canadian 

 Rockies. For the past two years he has 

 been living in Cuba, where he is inter- 

 ested in a mahogany forest. 



February 9 — "A Trip to Argentine and 

 Paraguay." By Mr John W. Titcomb, 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Illus- 

 trated. 



Mr Titcomb was recently invited by the 

 Argentine government to investigate the 

 fisheries of the republic and to recom- 

 mend a plan for their improvement. He 

 spent nearly a year in Argentine and 

 Paraguay, engaged on the work, which 

 gave him special opportunities of seeing 

 the people and country. 



February 15 — "Ten Years of Polar 

 Work; or, What we Know and What 

 we Want to Know." By Mr Herbert 

 L. Bridgman, Secretary of the Peary 

 Actic Club. Illustrated. 



March 1 — "Santo Domingo and Haiti." 

 By Rear Admiral Chester, U. S. Navy. 

 Illustrated. 



March 15 — "The Regeneration of 

 Korea." By Mr George Kennan. Il- 

 lustrated. 



