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The National Geographic Magazine 



March 23 — "Queer Methods of Travel 

 in Curious Corners of the World." By 

 Hon. O. P. Austin, Chief Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics. Illustrated. 



March 29 — "Mexico — the Treasure- 

 house of the World." Illustrated. 



April 5 — "A Popular Explanation of 

 Earthquakes and Volcanoes." By Dr 

 G. K. Gilbert, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. Illustrated. 



April 12 — "Captain John Smith and 

 Old Jamestown." By Mr W. W. Ells- 

 worth, Secretary of the Century Co. 



The approaching Jamestown Exposi- 

 tion adds special value to this lecture, 

 which will be illustrated with 150 stereop- 

 ticon views of the famous colonial homes 

 on the James river, of photographs con- 

 nected with Captain John Smith, and of 

 all the pictures that bear on the Poca- 

 hontas story. 



Announcements will be made later 

 of addresses by Commander Robert E. 

 Peary, U. S. Navy, who has recently 

 attained "Farthest North," and by Dr 

 F. A. Cook, of Brooklyn, who has ac- 

 complished the first ascent of Mount 

 McKinley, the highest mountain in 

 North America. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



The meetings of this course will be 

 held at the home of the Society, Hub- 

 bard Memorial Hall, Sixteenth and M 

 streets, at 8 p. m., on the following 

 dates : 



November 10 (Saturday) — "Prosper- 

 ous Porto Rico." By Hon. William 

 F. Willoughby, Treasurer of Porto 

 Rico. 



November 23 (Friday)— "The Great 

 New Lake in Southern California made 

 by the Colorado River." By Dr A. P. 

 Davis, Assistant Chief Engineer, U. S. 

 Reclamation Service. Illustrated. 



December 10 (Monday) — "Agricul- 

 tural Progress in the United States." 

 By Hon. Willett M. Hays, Assistant 

 Secretary of Agriculture. Illustrated. 



December ij (Monday) — "Enter- 

 prising Siam." By Mr Henry S. Kerr, 

 of New York, who has recently re- 

 turned from that distant land. Illus- 

 trated. 



December 28 (Friday) — "Acclimatiz- 

 ing Fishes — or Transplanting Fishes 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 

 Vice Versa, etc." By Dr Hugh M. 

 Smith, Deputy Commissioner, Bureau 

 of Fisheries. Illustrated. 



January 11 (Friday) — "Annual Meet- 

 ing. "Aboriginal Agriculture in Guate- 

 mala." By Mr O. F. Cook, of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Illus- 

 trated. 



January 16 (Wednesday) — "The U. 

 S. Forest Service." By Mr Gifford 

 Pinchot, Forester. Illustrated. The 

 Forest Service has charge of 114,606,058 

 acres of forest land, worth $400,000,000. 



January 22 (Tuesday) — "The Coal 

 Lands of the U. S. Public Domain." 

 By Mr M. R. Campbell, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



February 9 (Saturday) — "A Visit to 

 Sumatra." By Mr George H. Peters, 

 of the U. S. Naval Observatory. Illus- 

 trated. 



February 18 (Monday) — "Reclaiming 

 the Desert." By Mr C. J. Blanchard, of 

 the U. S. Reclamation Service. Illus- 

 trated. The Reclamation Service has a 

 fund of $40,000,000, which is being in- 

 vested in irrigation works. 



February 22 (Friday) — "Reclaiming 

 the Swamp Lands of the United 

 States." By Mr H. M. Wilson, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



March 8 (Friday)— "Twenty Years 

 in Beirut and Damascus ; or, The Syria 

 of Today." By Rev. F. E. Hoskins. 

 Illustrated. 



March 22 (Friday) — "Utilizing the 

 Surface Waters of the United States 

 for Power." By Mr H. A. Pressey, 

 C. E. Illustrated. 



April 6 (Saturday)— "The South Sea 

 Islanders." By Mr A. B. Alexander, 

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

 trated. 



April 15 — "Photographs of Wild 

 Game Taken by Themselves." By Hon. 

 George Shiras, 3d. Illustrated. 



April 19 (Friday) — "The Bureau of 

 American Republics." By Hon. W. C. 

 Fox, Director of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Republics. 



