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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



THE program of addresses before 

 the National Geographic Society 

 for 1910-1911 is as follows: 



November 18. — "Wild Man and Wild Beast 

 in Africa." By Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. 



November 25. — "A Glimpse of Portugal." By 

 Miss Laura Bell. Miss Bell was in Portugal 

 for several months during the past summer, 

 and has had an exceptional opportunity to un- 

 derstand the people and conditions of this 

 picturesque country. Illustrated. 



December 2. — "Four Journeys of a Naturalist 

 in the Islands of the South Pacific." By Henry 

 E. Crampton, Ph. D., of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. Dr Crampton will tell of 

 his travels in the Society, Cook, Tonga, 

 Samoan and Hawaiian Islands, and in New 

 Zealand. The natives, their every-day lives and 

 ceremonies, the active volcanoes of Samoa and 

 Hawaii, and the free life of the Pacific will be 

 described. Illustrated. 



December 9. — "My Friends, the Indians." By 

 Mr Frederic Monsen. Illustrated with color- 

 graphs and motion pictures. Mr Monsen for 

 years has been studying the Indians of Arizona 

 and New Mexico, and his series of pictures of 

 Indian life and manners are as beautiful as 

 they are instructive. 



December 16. — "The Glories, Sorrows, and 

 Hopes of Ireland." By Mr Seumas MacManus, 

 author of "A Lad of the O'Friel's," "Through 

 the Turf Smoke," "Donegal Fairy Stories," 

 "Ballads of a Country Boy," etc. Illustrated. 



December 23. — Christmas recess. 



December 30. — "From Babel to Esperanto — the 

 Complication of Mother Tongues and the Sim- 

 plicity of Esperanto." By Prof. A. Christen. 

 Professor Christen is the leading authority 

 on Esperanto. The growth of internationalism 

 and the need of a world tongue lend interest to 

 this topic. "Esperanto is spreading in almost 

 every European nation, and is more easily 

 learned and pronounced than any other foreign 

 language. It is taught in all the higher military 

 and naval schools of France, and at Lille has 

 been taught in the public schools for the past 

 three years." 



January 6. — "Arab Life in Tunisia." By 

 Frank Edward Johnson. Mr Johnson has 

 probably seen more of the Barbary States than 

 any other American. His lecture includes 

 Tunis ("the White Citv"), the remains of 

 Carthage and other buried Roman cities, Kairo- 

 wan with its 85 mosaues and 90 praying places, 

 and descriptions of the Arabs in the oases and 

 in the desert. Illustrated 



January 13.— "The Methods, the Achieve- 

 ments, and the Character of the Japanese." By 

 Mr George Kennan. Illustrated. • 



January 20. — "Making Pictures. The Won- 

 derful Development of the Art of Photography 

 and Its Value to Education and Commerce." 

 By Hon. O. P. Austin, Chief of the United 

 States Bureau of Statistics and Secretary of 

 the National Geographic Society. Illustrated 

 with motion pictures. 



January 27. — "The Panama Canal." By Col. 

 George W. Goethals, Chief Engineer Panama 

 Canal. Illustrated. 



February 3. — "Our Plant Immigrants." By 

 Mr David Fairchild, in charge of Agricultural 

 Explorations of the Department of Agriculture. 

 The hunt for valuable new plants and fruits 

 takes the agricultural explorers to many un- 

 known corners of the world, and is a fascinat- 

 ing story of achievement. Illustrated. 



February 10. — "The Balkan States." By Mr 

 E. M. Newman. With motion pictures. 



February 17. — "The Heart of Turkestan." 

 By Mr William E. Curtis. Illustrated. 



February 24. — "The Italy of Today." By 

 Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. Army. General 

 Greely has just returned to the United States 

 after spending a year in Italy, where he ob- 

 tained much information as to the remarkable 

 progress of modern Italy. Illustrated. 



March 3.— "The Birds of Mexico." By Mr 

 Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. With motion pictures of 

 roseate spoon-bills, man-o'-war birds, and 

 white ibises. 



March 10. — "From the Amazon to the Ori- 

 noco. The Five Guianas." By Mrs Harriet 

 Chalmers Adams. With motion pictures. 



March 17.' — "Travels and Experiences in 

 Mexico." By Mr John Birkinbine, President 

 of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

 Illustrated. 



March 24. — "The Shrines of Greece : Olym- 

 pia, Delphi, Eleusis, Athens, Mycenae, Tiryns, 

 Epidauros, and the Island of Crete." By Miss 

 Marion Cock. Illustrated. 



March 31. — "The Romance and Grandeur of 

 Spain." By Dr Charles Upson Clark, of Yale 

 University. Illustrated. 



April 7. — It is honed that former Vice-Presi- 

 dent Charles W. Fairbanks will be able to ad- 

 dress the Society on this date on some subject 

 connected with his recent journey around the 

 world. 



April 14.— "The Fiords and Fisheries of Nor- 

 wav." By Dr Hueh M. Smith. Deputy Com- 

 missioner of the Bureau of Fisheries. With 

 motion pictures. 



