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The National Geographic Magazine 



stantial beginning for studies in drainage. The 

 really important marsh areas, such as the Dis- 

 mal Swamp, the Florida Everglades, and the 

 wide reaches in Minnesota, are yet to be 

 mapped, and until that work is done no com- 

 prehensive plans for their drainage can be per- 

 fected. 



national geographic society 



December 14 — "Russia and the Duma." By 

 Mr William E. Curtis. Illustrated. 



December 15 — Annual Banquet. The New 

 Willard. The guests of the evening will include 

 the Italian Ambassador ; the Russian Ambassa- 

 dor and Baroness Rosen ; the Japanese Ambas- 

 sador and Vicountess Aoki ; the Secretary of 

 the Navy; Commander Robert E. Peary and 

 Mrs Peary; Mr Morris K. Jesup, of New York, 

 President of the Peary Arctic Club, and Mrs 

 Jesup ; Mr Herbert L. Bridgman, Secretary of 

 the Peary Arctic Club ; and Dr F. A. Cook, who 

 has been the first to ascend Mount McKinley. 



The special feature of the evening will be the 

 first award of the National Geographic Society 

 Gold Medal to Commander Peary. 



December 21 — "On Horseback through the 

 Deserts of Lower California." By Mr E. W. 

 Nelson, of the Bureau of Biological Survey. 

 Illustrated. 



January 2 — "Between Egypt and the Prom- 

 ised Land : A recent journey into Moab and 

 Edom." By Rev. Franklin E. Hoskins, D. D. 



January 4 — -"German East Africa." By Dr 

 Louis Livingstone Seaman, of New York. Il- 

 lustrated. 



January 18 — "Camping Expeditions in the 

 Canadian Rockies." By Mr Howard Du Bois. 



January 25 — "Bolivia — a Country Without a 

 Debt." By the Bolivian Minister, Senor F. 

 Calderon. Illustrated. 



February 1 — "The Rising Pacific Empire." 

 By Hon. George C. Perkins, U. S. Senator 

 from California. 



February 8 — "The Guianas." By Prof. 

 Angelo Heilprin, of Yale University. Illus- 

 trated. 



February 15 — -"Ten Years of Polar Work; 

 or, What We Know and What We Want to 

 Know." By Mr Herbert L. Bridgman, Secre- 

 tary of the Peary Arctic Club. Illustrated. 



February 19 — "Two Thousand Miles in the 

 Saddle through Colombia and Ecuador." By 

 Hon. John Barrett, U. S. Minister to Colombia. 

 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. Illustrated. 



March 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 Immigra- 

 tion. Illustrated. 



March 23 — "Queer Methods of Travel in 

 Curious Corners of the World." By Hon. O. 

 P. Austin, Chief Bureau of Statistics. Illus- 

 trated. 



March 29 — "Mexico— the Treasure-house of 

 the World." By Mr N. H. Darton, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



April 5— "A Popular Explanation of Earth- 

 quakes 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. Ellsworth, Secre- 

 tary of the Century Co. 



Announcements will be made later of ad- 

 dresses by Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. 

 Navy, who has recently attained "Farthest 

 North," and by Dr F. A. Cook, of Brooklyn, 

 who has accomplished 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, Hubbard Memorial 

 Hall, Sixteenth and M streets, at 8 p. m., on the 

 following dates : 



December 17 — "Enterprising Siam." By Mr 

 Henry S. Kerr, of New York, who has recently 

 returned from that distant land. Illustrated. 



February 28 — "Acclimatizing 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 — Annual Meeting. "Aboriginal 

 Agriculture in Guatemala." By Mr O. F. Cook, 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Illus- 

 trated. 



January 16 — "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 — "The Coal Lands of the U. S. 

 Public Domain." By Mr M. R. Campbell, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



February 9 — "A Visit to Sumatra." By Mr 

 George H. Peters, of the U. S. Naval Observa- 

 tory. Illustrated. 



February 18 — "Reclaiming the Desert." By 

 Mr C. J. Blanchard, of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service. Illustrated. The Reclamation Serv- 

 ice has a fund of $40,000,000, which is being in- 

 vested in irrigation works. 



February 22 — "Reclaiming the Swamp Lands 

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

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. Illustrated. 



March 8 — "Twenty Years in Beirut and 

 Damascus ; or, The Syria of Today." By Rev. 

 F. E. Hoskins. Illustrated. 



March 22— "Utilizing the Surface Waters of 

 the United States for Power." By Mr H. A. 

 Pressey, C. E. Illustrated. 



April 6— "The South Sea Islanders." By Mr 

 A. B. Alexander, of the U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries. Illustrated. 



April 15— "Photographs of Wild Game Taken 

 by Themselves." By Hon. George Shiras, 3d. 

 Illustrated. 



April 19 — "A Trip to Argentine and Para- 

 guay." By Mr John W. Titcomb, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries. Illustrated. 



