The National Geographic Magazine 



PROGRAM OF MEETINGS, 1905 



THE POPULAR COURSE 



January 6, J 905. — " Japan." By 

 Baron Kentaro Kaneko, of the House of 

 Peers of Japan, LL. D., Harvard Uni- 

 versity, 1899. 



January 20 .— " Russia." By Hon. 

 Charles Emory Smith, formerly Post- 

 master General and Minister to Russia. 



February 3* -"The Philippines." 

 The Secretary of War, Hon. Wm. H. 

 Taft, formerly Civil Governor of the 

 Philippine Islands, has accepted the in- 

 vitation of the Society to deliver the 

 address on this subject, provided that 

 the demands of public service do not 

 interfere. 



February \ 7. — " Manchuria and 

 Korea." By Mr Edwin V. Morgan, 

 U. S. Consul to Dalny. Illustrated. 



March *0.— " The Panama Canal." 

 Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. 

 N., Superintendent of the U. S. Naval 

 Observatory. Illustrated. 



March 24. — "The Commercial Prize 

 of the Orient and its Relation to the 

 Commerce of the United States." By 

 Hon. O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau 

 of Statistics. Illustrated. 



March 3*. — "From Lexington to 

 Yorktown." By Mr W. W. Ellsworth, 

 of the Century Company. Illustrated. 



April J 4. — " Fighting the Boll 

 Weevil." By Dr L. O. Howard, Chief of 

 the Bureau of Entomology. Illustrated. 



April 28—" Niagara Falls." By Dr 

 G. K. Gilbert, Vice-President National 

 Geographic Society. Illustrated. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



Thursday, January \2 f \ 905* — Gen- 

 eral subject, " The Reclamation Ser- 

 vice." Mr F. H. Newell, Chief Engi- 

 neer, and other engineers of the Recla- 

 mation Service, will describe the differ- 

 ent irrigation works now being con- 

 structed. 



January 13. — Annual meeting. Re- 

 ports of officers and elections. 

 January 27. — General subject, 

 " The American Deserts." 



1 . Vegetation. By Mr F. V. Coville^ 

 Botanist of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



2. Physiography. By Dr G. K. Gil- 

 bert. 



3. Introducing the Date Palm. By- 

 Mr W. T. Zwingle. 



February JO. — General subject," Pro- 

 gress in Animal Husbandry." There 

 will be papers by Mr George M. Rom- 

 mel, Mr G. Fayette Thompson, and 

 others of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, on the work and plans of the 

 Department for producing distinctive 

 American breeds of Horses, on the An- 

 gora Goat, the Fat Tailed Sheep, the 

 Barbadoes Woolless Sheep, on the in- 

 troduction of the Bos indicus, etc. 



February 24. — General subject, ' ' The 

 Botanical Investigations of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture." By Mr F. V. 

 Coville, Botanist, and members of his. 

 staff. 



March 3. — General subject, "Pro- 

 gress in Plant Physiology. ' ' Papers by 

 Dr George T. Moore and others on ' * In- 

 oculating the Ground," " Protecting: 

 Municipal Water Supply Systems," etc 



March 17. — General subject, 

 "Japan." 



The Geography of Japan. By Mr 

 Eki Hioki, First Secretary of the Japa- 

 nese Legation. 



The Fisheries of Japan. By Dr Hugh 

 M. Smith. 



Agriculture in Japan. By Mr David 

 G. Fairchild. 



April 7. — General subject, 

 " Forestry." 



Papers by Mr Gifford Pinchot, Mr 

 Overton Price, and others, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Forestry, and a paper on> 

 Japanese Bamboos, by Mr David G- 

 Fairchild. 



