Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-01
THE GEOGRAPHIC LECTURES.
A Change Announced In the Program
of the Course.

One of the best lectures of the ACROSS
the Continent" course was given Friday
afternoon before the Geographic Society in
the National Rifles Hall by Mr.. Arthur P.
Davis on the journey from Sacramento to
San Bernardino. His description of the
region traversed was succinct, graphic and
salient. The illustra tons were thrown into
the lecture so rapidly and in such numbers
that the audience that thronged the house
were almost transported in fancy to the
land of eternal summer, of which Mr.. Da-
Wis spoke.
Maj. Powell followed Mr.. Davis in a
poetico-scientifc account of the dessert re-
gion intervening between San Bernardino
and San Francisco mountains. describing
also the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
the lava beds, volcano craters, the cave ard
cliff jewellers.
In the evening Senator Mitchell of Ore
gon lectured before the same society in The
same hall on the state he represents in
Congress. He pictured its mountains and
plains, its great river and told the history
of the state in a way that was exceedingly
interesting.
Change of Program.
A new calendar has been issued by the
Geographic Society, canceling those pre-
viousy issued. and containing several items
of special interest. The afternoon lecture
assigned for today will be held tomorrow,
April 2, and there will be some very fine
pictures Of the Grand Canon of the Colorado
and Of scenes in Sonora, Mexico. A lecture
has been added to this course for the after
noon of Thursday April 4. explained thus
on the calendar: DIR. Holub, the dis
tingushed African explorer, has consented
to deliver this illustrated lecture, on the
eve of his departure for Europe. and it is
added to the course OF illustrated afternoon
lectures, in order to contrast travelling in
America and Africa. Season tickets and
ffalra hoft ,, 1v,,ic
sion, if shown at the door coupons not to
be collected at this lecture.)"
1t is announced, also, that Rev. Henry
II. Jessup for thirty-nine years missionary
at Beirut, Syria, will lecture on The Ply
steal Geography, Geology, Agriculture, Re
ligions and Missionary Literary Institutions
of the Turkish Empire" April II. the date
previously assigned to DR.. Zeballos, the Ar
gentine minister, who has been obliged to
cancel his engagement on account of his
departure for Europe.
The Annual Excursion.
The following additional information is
given about the annual excursion: The
evening of May 3 there will be meeting
here, preparatory to the excursion, May 4,
with this program: Geography ana &C.
ology,' as minutes), Mr.. N. H. Darton;
Surveying, Mapping and Bridging" Q5
mnutes), Maj. Gilbert Thompson; 1.-The
Battles; AS Seen from the Northern Side
co minutes), Gen. John Gihbon, U. S. A.;
The Battles; AS Seen from the Southern
Side" co minutes), Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss,
C. S. A. With such preparation, and good
nights rest, all will be ready for the ex-
cursion Of the following day, Of which the
following is the program: Special train,
Baltimore and Potomac station, 8 am. Ar
rive, Fredericksburg, IL am. Addresses of
welcome by the mayor, Hon. A. P. Rowe,
and eX-Gov. Marye. Brief remarks upon
fredericksburg, Past and Present" by
Rev. Robert r. Howison; Geographic His
tory Of the Rappahannock Valley" w. j.
MCGEE; and Points of Interest in and
Around Fredericksburg" Seymour White,
esq. Returning leave Fredericksburg,
pm. Arrive, Washington, 6 pm. Further
details will be duly announced by special
circular.