NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



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O. H. T1TTMANN . . . PRESIDENT 

 GILBERT GROSVENOR . director and editor 

 JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE . associate editor 



O. P. AUSTIN 



SECRETARY 



JOHN E. PILLSBURY . . VICE-PRESIDENT 

 JOHN JOY EDSON ..... treasurer 

 GEORGE W. HUTCHISON, assistant secretary 

 WILLIAM J. SHOWALTER . ASSISTANT EDITOR 

 RALPH A. GRAVES . ASSISTANT EDITOR 



1917-1919 



Alexander Graham Bell 



Inventor of the Telephone 



J. Howard Gore 



Prof. Emeritus Mathematics, 

 The George Washington 

 University 



A. W. Greely 



Arctic Explorer, Major Gen'l 

 U. S. Army 



Gilbert Grosvexor 



Editor of National Geo- 

 graphic Magazine 



George Otis Smith 



Director of U. S. Geological 



Survey 



O. H. TlTTMANN 



Formerly Superintendent of 

 LI. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey 



Henry White 



Formerly U. S. Ambassador 

 to France, Italy, etc. 



John M. Wilson 



Brigadier ^ General U. S. 

 Army, Formerly Chief of 

 Engineers 



BOARD OF MANAGERS 



1918-1920 



Charles J. Bell 



President American Security 

 and Trust Company 



John Joy Edsox 



Chairman of the Board, 

 Washington Loan & Trust 

 Company 



David Fairchild 



In Charge of Agricultural 

 Explorations, Department 

 of Agriculture 



C. Ha 



Merriaiv 



Member National Academy 

 of Sciences 



O. P. Austin 

 Statistician 

 George R. Putnam 



Commissioner U. S. Bureau 

 of Lighthouses 



George Shiras, 3d 



Formerly Member U. S. Con- 

 gress. Faunal Naturalist, 

 and Wild-Game Photogra- 

 pher 



Graxt Squires 



Military Intelligence Divi- 

 sion, General Staff, New 

 York 



1919-1921 



Franklin K. Lane 



Secretary of the Interior 



William Howard Taft 



Formerly President of the 

 United States 



C. M. Chester 



Rear Admiral. U. S. Navy, 

 Formerly Supt. U. S. 

 Naval Observatory 



Frederick V. Coville 



Formerly President of Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sci- 

 ences 



John E. Pillsbury 



Rear Admiral U. S. Navy, 

 Formerly Chief Bureau of 

 Navigation 



Rudolph Kauffmann 



Managing Editor The Even- 

 ing Star 



T. L. Macdoxald 



M. D., F. A. C. S. 



S. N. D. North 



Formerly Director U. S. Bu- 

 reau of Census 



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GILBERT GROSVENOR, Editor 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



A. W. Greely 

 C. Hart Merriam 

 O. H. Tittmaxx 

 Robert Hollister Chapman 

 Walter T. Swingle 



Alexax'der Graham Bell 

 David Fairchild 

 Hugh M. Smith 

 N. H. Dartox 

 Fraxk M. Chapmax 



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