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ing to learn. The Ethnological Survey 

 is doing good work in studying the 

 primitive inhabitants of the Philippine 

 Islands. A previous report on ' ' The 

 Negritos" was noticed in this maga- 

 zine several months ago. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for 1904:* Pp. 800. 6x9 inches. 

 Illustrated. Washington : Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. 1905. 

 The Report of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution for 1904 contains papers of geo- 

 graphic value, as follows : 



On Mountains and Mankind. Douglas W. 

 Freshfield. 



Morocco. Theobald Fischer. 



The Work of the Reclamation Service. F. H. 

 Newell. 



The Yuma Reclamation Project. J. B. Lip- 

 pincott. 



The Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon. Prof. W. A. 

 Herdman. 



Flying Fish and Their Habits. Dr Theodore 

 Gill. 



An Inquiry Into the Population of China. 

 W. W. Rockhill. 



The Economic Conquest of Africa by the 

 Railroads. A. Fock. 



The Present Aspects of the Panama Canal. 

 William H. Burr. 



The Sanitation of the Isthmian Canal Zone. 

 W. C. Gorgas. 



The Projected New Barge Canal of the State 

 of New York. Col. Thomas W. Symons. 



Archaeology of the Pueblo Region. Edgar E. 

 Hewett. 



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THE annual dinner will be on De- 

 cember 20. For special announce- 

 ment see page 569. 



THE: POPULAR COURSE 



The addresses in this course are de- 

 livered in the National Rifles Armory, 

 920 G street, at 8 p. m. 



December 8— "What Shall be Done 

 with the Yosemite Valley." By Mr 

 William B. Curtis. Illustrated. 



The Yosemite Valley has been receded 

 to the federal government by act of the 

 California legislature, but has not yet 

 been formally accepted by Congress. 



December 22 — "An Attempt at an 

 Interpretation of Japanese Character." 

 By Hon. Eki Hioki, First Secretary of 

 the Japanese Legation. 



December 23 (Saturday)— "A Mili- 

 tary Observer in Manchuria. ' ' By Maj or 

 Joseph Kuhn, U. S. A. Illustrated. 



January 5 — "Russia and the Russian 

 People. " By Mr Melville E. Stone, Gen- 

 eral Manager of the Associated Press. 



January \ 9— " Railway Rates. ' ' By 

 Hon. Martin A. Knapp, President of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



January 25 (Thursday)— ' ' The Zieg- 

 ler Polar Expedition of 1 903-1 905." By 

 Messrs W. S. Champ, Anthony Fiala,. 

 and W. J. Peters. 



A novel feature of this meeting will 

 be the exhibition of moving pictures of 

 Arctic scenes. 



February 2 — "Austria Hungary.' r 

 By Edwin A. Grosvenor, EE. D. , Pro- 

 fessor of International Eaw in Amherst 

 College, author of "Constantinople,"' 

 " Contemporary History," etc. 



February JO (Saturday)— ' 'A Fla- 

 mingo City." By Dr Frank M. Chap- 

 man, American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. 



February 16 — "Africa from Sea to 

 Center." By Mr Herbert E. Bridg- 

 man. Illustrated. 



Africa in transition today challenges 

 the attention of the world. Few intel- 

 ligent Americans know to what extent 

 its possibilities have been developed 

 since Livingstone's day, a development 

 that in rapidity promises to exceed that 

 of North America. 



February 20 (Tuesday)— 4< China." 

 By Hon. Charles Denby, of the State 

 Department. 



