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"Last night I got so absorbed in reading 

 about that lost city in Peru that I let my 

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 seen in a long time, and a copy of this 

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 the United States. As a former school 

 teacher, I see possibilities of instruction 

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 the pictures of living things in our back 

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 my hearty cooperation in putting this 

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 in pictures, and most all young people do 

 so, and one of these pictures is more im- 

 pressive than a dozen pages of scientific 

 explanation. 



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 edge in a very direct and lasting way. 



"This venture in the Magazine line is 

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 the help and push of every father and 

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"I cannot see how I should teach geog- 

 raphy without this Magazine, and the 

 children look for its coming with eager- 

 ness. They love it because they know 

 that what they see is truth and not an 

 artist's fancy." 



"Through the Magazine I have become 

 an accomplished traveler, am familiar 

 with the wonders of our own country 

 and the strange, out-of-the-way places of 

 the earth, and have taken these perfectly 

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"It does not seem possible to supply 

 such a Magazine to members, consider- 

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"I want to say that your conception of 

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 proving a vast benefit to our generation." 



The Membership of the National Geographic 

 Society in the Various States, Territories, 

 and Insular Possessions. 



State Rankin Mernher< , 



population members 



New York i 53,391 



Pennsylvania 2 26^62 



Massachusetts 6 25,319 



California I2 24^125 



Illinois 3 22^085 



° hl ° 4 12,991 



New Jersey ri 10,824 



Connecticut 32 7,896 



Missouri 7 7 ' 0 5 4 



Michigan g 6,759 



Minnesota Ig 5>9Q2 



Wisconsin 13 4,714 



Indiana 9 4) ' 574 



District of Columbia 44 4)0 8o 



Washington 30 4477 



Colorado 33 4)425 



Iow a 15 4,129 



Maryland 27 3,960 



Maine 35 2 ; 944 



Texas •-. 5 2,674 



Kentucky i 4 2; 6 29 



Montana 4 i 2,500 



Virginia 20 2,336 



Kansas 22 2,270 



Rhode Island 39 2200 



Oregon 36 2 ', C 99 



Georgia 10 1,835 



Tennessee 17 i,8i 2 



New Hampshire 40 1,752 



Florida 34 T}742 



Vermont 43 1,600 



West Virginia 28 1,592 



Nebraska 29 1,346 



North Carolina 16 1,309 



Louisiana 24 1,188 



Utah 42 1,090 



Idaho 46 1,056 



Oklahoma 23 990 



Alabama 18 976 



South Dakota 37 976 



Arizona 47 937 



North Dakota 38 925 



South Carolina 26 929 



Delaware 48 858 



Arkansas 25 820 



Mississippi 21 752 



New Mexico 45 726 



Wyoming 50 594 



Nevada 51 555 



Alaska 372 



Guam 9 



Hawaii 623 



Panama (Canal Zone) 382 



Philippine Islands 584 



Porto Rico 204 



Samoa 3 



281,556 



