92 The National Geographic Magazine 



Pp. 73. 10^ x 7^ inches. Wash- 

 ington : Government Printing Office. 

 1904. 



Excursions and Lessons in Home Geog- 

 raphy* By Charles A. McMurry. 

 Pp. 152. 7^ x 5^ inches. New 

 York : The Macmillan Company. 

 1904. 



Students' Laboratory of Physical Geog- 

 raphy. By Albert Perry Brigham. 

 Pp. 153. 7^ x 5/^ inches. New 

 York : D. Appleton & Co. 1905. 



The Land of Riddles — Russia of Today* 



ByHugoGanz. Pp.330. 8^x5^ 

 inches. New York : Harper & Bros. 

 1904. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



THE address on the Philippines 

 previously announced for Feb- 

 ruary 3 has been postponed 

 until after the adjournment of Congress, 

 as it is believed that official demands will 

 then permit the Secretary of War to ad- 

 dress the Society on this Subject. 



POPULAR MEETINGS 

 National Rifles' Armory, 920 G street, 8 p. m. 



February 3. — "The Evolution of Rus- 

 sian Government." By Dr Edwin A. 

 Grosvenor, Professor of International 

 Law and Modern Government in Am- 

 herst College. 



February 17. — "Manchuria and 

 Korea." By Col. W. S. Schuyler, 

 U. S. A. Illustrated. 



March JO.— "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 31. — "From Lexington to 

 Yorktown." By Mr W. W. Ells- 

 worth, of the Century Company. Il- 

 lustrated. 



April 14. — " Fighting the Boll 

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

 of the Bureau of Entomology. Illus- 

 trated. 



April 28— " Niagara Falls." By Dr 

 G. K. Gilbert, Vice-President National 

 Geographic Society. Illustrated. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 

 Hubbard Memorial Hall, 8 p. m. 



February 10. — 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 ' 1 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. 



