GEOGRAPHIC NOTES 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



AT the last meeting of the National 

 Geographic Society for i904-'c>5 

 President Willis L. Moore announced 

 that the membership of the Society had 

 reached 5,000, making the National 

 Geographic Society the largest geo- 

 graphical society in the world. Nearly 

 every section of the globe is represented 

 in this membership. 



The members are reminded that the 

 Society will always welcome from them 

 notes of geographic development and 

 interest. Members are also urged to 

 send to the Society for preservation in 

 its library copies of photographs taken 



by them, either at home or on their 

 travels, that have a geographic value. 



Some features which the National 

 Geographic Society will publish in its 

 Magazine during the next several 

 months are : 



An article on "Storms and Weather 

 Forecasts," illustrated with 20 charts, 

 showing storm tracks, hot and cold 

 waves, etc., by Dr Willis L. Moore, 

 Chief United States Weather Bureau and 

 President of the National Geographic 

 Society; an address on "The Philip- 

 pines," by the Secretary of War, Hon. 

 William H. Taft, with a new map of 

 the Philippines, 23 by 36 inches and in 



From George Fayette Thompson, U. S. Department of Agriculture 



A Group of Milch Goats. (See page 237) 



