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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 526. 



LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES. 



Name. 



Location. 



Seattle. 

 (Organization 

 incomplete. ) 



Alaska Geographical Societyf 



American Alpine Club 



American Climatological Association 



American Geographical Society New York. 



Appalachian Mountain Club , Boston. 



New York. 



Explorer's Club (Organization 



I incomplete. ) 



Geographical Society of Baltimoref Baltimore. 



Geograpliical Society of California San Francisco. 



Geographical Society of Chicago ' Chicago. 



Geographical Society of the Pacific | San Francisco. 



Geographical Society of Philadelphia...! Philadelphia. 

 Harvard Travelers' Club Cambridge, Mass. 



Mazama Mountain Club Portland, Ore. 



1 



National Geographic Society '• Washington. 



PeleClub .-. ' (Organization 



i incomplete) i 



Quebec Geographical Society f Quebec. 



Sierra Club San Francisco. I 



a-* 



1,200? 



r. 



4 a 



140 

 1,300 



1,500 



1,725 

 ? 



65 

 ? 



537 

 140 



100 



3,375 



;} 



40,000 books 

 000 maps, 

 2,000 books. \ 

 1,500 maps. / 



f40. 



4,822 books. 

 274 maps. 

 900 books. 



200 

 760 



100 books. 

 50 maps. 

 1,500 books. 



$2.00 



5.00 I 



7.50 $1.00 



10.00 i 



4.00 ; 4.00 



1.00 

 5.00 

 2.00 



6.00 



5.00 

 2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



5.00 



3.00 



§100.00 

 50.00 



100.00 

 25.00 



100.00 



50.00 

 25.00 



25.00 



50.00 



50.00 



sire to increase and diffuse geographical 

 knowledge. The combined active member- 

 ship of what may be termed bona fide geo- 

 graphical societies is over nine thousand. 

 This number in itself is significant of a 

 wide popular interest in geographical mat- 

 ters, particularly among the people of the 

 United States. The condition next in im- 

 portance to interest in geography, which 

 leads to the organization of geographical 

 societies, is evidently concentration of pop- 

 ulation. Each of our geographical socie- 

 ties has its home in a large city. It is 

 pn)bal)k\ however, that there are many, 

 many thousands of people outside the cities 

 in which the societies referred to are lo- 

 cated, who would join similar organiza- 

 tions if it were practicable for them to at- 

 tend their meetings. In planning for the 

 extension of geographical societies in the 

 future this great but widely scattered de- 

 mand needs to receive serious attention. 



As is no doubt familiar to most of my 

 readers, our geographical societies have ex- 

 tended important aid to exploration, and 

 in the case of at least two societies, namely, 

 the American Geographical Society and the 

 National Geographic Society, the record in 

 this respect is an honorable one. 



In reference to aid extended to geograph- 

 ical research, when not directly associated 

 with or forming a part of the work of an 

 expedition, I have inquired in vain for 

 evidence that our societies have either ex- 

 pended money directly or by awarding 

 medals or by other similar means recog- 

 nized the labor of those who have striven 

 diligently and successfully to explore the 

 domain of philosophical geography.* Here 

 again an extensive field for enlarging the 

 usefulness of our societies makes itself 



* An pxccptinn sliould here bp made in recogni- 

 tion of the Elislia Hunt Tlaner Medal of the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Pliiliule]i)hia, founded 'for 

 encouragement of geographical research.' 



