THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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A CONVALESCENT WARD IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY HOSPITAL NO. I 



Many of the knitted and crocheted comforts which will be used in the National Geo- 

 graphic Society wards of this hospital are the handiwork of the 250 young ladies employed 

 at the headquarters of the Society in Washington. 



MR. TAET NOW A MEMBER OE THE 



society's BOARD OE managers 



The Board also feels particularly for- 

 tunate in the addition of Hon. William 

 Howard Taft, former President of the 

 United States, to its councils. Mr. Taft 

 has for a number of years taken an active 

 interest in the Society's undertakings, and 

 for several successive seasons has been 

 one of the distinguished speakers in its 

 course of 20 lectures given each winter 

 in Washington, as well as one of the fore- 

 most contributors to the National Geo- 

 graphic Magazine. 



Mr. Taft succeeds on the Board the 

 late Col. Henry F. Blount, whose loss to 

 the Society was voiced in the following 

 resolutions : 



"In the fullness of his years, death has 

 called from among us our colaborer and 

 friend, Henry Fitch Blount, who for 

 more than a quarter of a century was a 



member of the Board of Managers of the 

 National Geographic Society, and for 

 fifteen years a member of the Board's 

 Executive Committee. 



"The Board of Managers shares with 

 the community of Washington at large 

 the sense of loss sustained in the death 

 of Colonel Blount. Endowed with fine 

 judgment and keen foresight and pos- 

 sessed of a ripe business experience, he 

 was a safe and enthusiastic counsellor in 

 the tasks confronting the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. He will long be missed, 

 but his lasting monument will be that he 

 helped to lay the foundation of the So- 

 ciety's work so firmly that it will endure 

 even when the builders are gone. 



''Resolved, That this resolution be en- 

 tered as a minute in the records of the 

 Society and published in the Magazine, 

 and that an engrossed copy be presented 

 to the family of our faithful associate." 



