The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11

leading scientiHo geographers OF Great
Britain. Prof Henri Cordier, who Is on the
ST. Louis programme, Is the president OF
the Paris Geographical Society and one OF
the leading Oriental scholars and authori-
ties on Eastern geography.
Count Won Pfeil, who will speak on the
Colonial Possessions of Germany Is the
man who, perhaps more than all others, gave
an impulse TO the colonial development OF
that empire. A man OF wealth and high
position. he gave years of his life to the
hardest pioneer work in German East
Africa. which became a German colony
largely through his record OF achieve
ment and persistent endeavor.
Thoulet of France Is one Of the fathers
of the modern science Of oceanography.
Penck Of Austria has world wide fame for
his contributions to the study Of the genesis
Of the forms of the land surfaces.
Chandelier Is brilliant young man,
who with his father has made u scientific
investigation of Madagascar, the study OF
years their joint publications on this great
island being more voluminous than those
of any other writer's. Prince Roland Bona
parte, who has travelled and written much,
has In his splendid Paris home geograph-
ioal library of over 100000 volumes and
pamphlets, moro than some geographica
societies can boast.
Then there are Erodi OF Budapest, whose
description of a geography Of Hungary
has doubtless had more English readers
than the work Of any other writer on this
subject; Oberhummer, the professor of
geography in. the University OF Vienna,
and others equally well known.
C,,oh ,,,an fhaaa Eur0paapa R,iDy)lv tina
element without which the congress could
! in no sense be international, and they are
supplemented by scores Of our leading
geographers, most OF them men Of the uni
versities and higher schools, and foremost
explorers like Peary. who was honored with
the presidency of the congress and whose
record reflects honor upon it. The scientific
bureaus in Washington are also fully repre-
| sented by the men whose work has given
them high rank among scientific geog-
raphers.
| About one hundred and fifty papers will
be presented, and the scientific programme
i, is 30 long that some Of it will have to DO
reserved for printing without being read
in the sessions.
this week the foreign delegates win be the
/ guests OF CU6 hIucIlCdu 0eOkldPkhS0A w
ciety. Its handsome house at Is West
Eighty-frst street will be the headquarters,
and with the generous cooperation Of tho
American Museum OF Natural History,
whose lecture halls have been placed at
the service Of the congress, it will have tho
most ample conveniences for its work!
| The museum gives luncheon, the Annri-
can Geographical Society another, - well
as O reception, dinner complimentary to
it's foreign guests and an excursion up
the Hudson which will occupy the whole OF
Thursday. West Point will be visited, and
Mount Beacon, nearly opposite Newburg.
| will be assembled on the little mountain
railroad. :.
The congress will not return to the city.
but will take q special train for Niagara
Falls that will await 1t across the river from
West Point.
While in New York the sessions win most
Of the time be simultaneously in progress
in three or four lecture halls. american
geographers are certainly doing all they can
to make the occasion memorable TO their
foreign visitors and to insure the success
Of the congress. .E'-'5