Vol. XXII, No. 1 



WASHINGTON 



January, 1911 



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WILD MAN AND WILD BEAST IN AFRICA 



By Theodore Roosevelt 



Honorary Member of the National, Geographic Society 



The following article is the address delivered before the National Geographic 

 Society by ex-President Roosevelt, November 18. In presenting Mr. Roosevelt, 

 President Gannett read the folloiving resolution, which had been unanimously 

 adopted by the Board of Managers of the National Geographic Society: 



"ResotvEd, That the National Geographic Society through its Board of Man- 

 agers herewith tenders to Theodore Roosevelt its hearty appreciation of his serv- 

 ices to geographic science, both for his own work in that field as illustrated by his 

 books, 'The Winning of the West' and 'African Game Trails,' and by the results 

 of his expedition to tropical Africa, which brought back unparalleled zoological 

 ■collections, and for his interest in the furtherance of original geographic works 

 during his administration as President of the United States. Among these may 

 be mentioned his success in obtaining an equitable decision relative to the Alaskan 

 boundary; the aid he extended to Peary, which resulted in his discovery of tin- 

 North Pole; his work for the Panama Canal; his interest in the irrigation of our 

 -arid lands and in the right using of our forests ; the preservation of birds by the 

 establishment of bird reservations ; the measures taken by him to protect our natu- 

 ral zvonders by reserving them as national monuments, and his active assistance in 

 other problems in which the student of geographic history is most deeply concerned. 



"For all these things the National Geographic Society holds Theodore Roosevelt 

 in the highest honor." 



IT is a very real pleasure to be here 

 this evening, and no pressure was 

 necessary to get me to come. I had 

 always wished to have the chance of 

 speaking first under the auspices of this 

 Society when I came back from the 

 other side to give an account of my stew- 

 ardship. Before speaking about my 

 trip itself, I want to say a word or two 

 .as to the circumstances under which I 



took it. I have always felt a little bit as 

 if I was entitled to praise from the 

 National Geographic Society only be- 

 cause I was interested in other branches 

 of science, for I never really did any- 

 thing for geography at all. But I have 

 been so much interested in sciences con- 

 nected with geography — in sciences 

 which can be studied in company with 

 those actively interested in geographic 



