Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-07
United States.
President of the congress, Commander
Robert E. PearY U. s. N

United States.
President of the congress, Commander
Robert E. Peary, U. s. N.
Honorary vice presidents-Comte Cassini,
the Russian ambassador; Senior Don Man.
uel de Azpiroz, the Mexican ambassador;
Baron Edmondo Mayor des Planches, the
Italian ambassador; Mr.. LadslauS Hengei-
| muller Won Hengervar. the ambassador
, from Austria-Hungary; Mr.. ]. ]. JUS
serand, the ambassador from France:
Freiherr Speck Won Sternburg, the German
ambassador; the Right Honorable Sir ii.
| M. Durand. the ambassador from Great
Britain; Mr.. A. Grip, the minister from
Sweden and Norway; Senior Don Antonio
Lazo Arriaga, the minister from Guate-
mala: Mr.. Constantin Brun. the minister
from Denmark; Mr.. ]. N. Leger. the min
lister from Haiti; Mr.. ]. F. de Assis- Brasil,
the minister from Brazil; Senior Don Joa-
Costa Rica; Senior Don Luis F. Corea, the
minister from Nicaragua Mr.. KOgoro
Takahira, the minister from Japan; Mr.
Manuel Alvarez Calderon, the Peruvian
minister; Senior Martin Garcia Merou, the
| minister from Argentina; Baron Moncheur,
the Belgian minister Phya Akharaj Varad-
hara, the minister from Siam; Senior Don
Joaquin WalkerMartinez the Gillian min
lister; Viscount de Alte, the minister from
Portugal; Senior Don Gonzalo de Quesada
the minister from Cuba; Senior Don Emilio
de Ojeda, the minister from Spain; Mr..
Rafael s. Lopez, the minister from Saliva
II.
lister from Ecuador; Mr.. Fernand Du Mar
theray, the minister from Switzerland; Sir
Chentung LANG Cheng, the minister from
China; Senior Doctor Eduardo Acevedo
Diaz, the minister from Uruguay; Senior
Don Cecilio Baez, the minister from Para
quay; Jonkheer r. de Marees Swim
deren, the minister from the Netherlands;
Senior Don Ignacio Calderon. the Bolivian
minister; Senior Don J. Domingo de Obal
dia, the minister from Panama; Chekib
Bey, the minister from Turkey; Morteza
Khan, the minister from Persia; Mr..
Henry G. X. Heath, the minister from the
Dominican republic; Mr. Teh Moo Sin. the
minister from Korea; Senior Don Augusta
F. Puldo. the Venezuelan minister.
The honorary vice presidents also include
the presidents of previous international geo.
graphic congress, as follows:
Duca di Sermoneta Venice, 1881; Nation
alrath Doctor Gobat Bern, 1S9D: Sir Glenn
ents r. Markham london, 1850: Ferdi-
nand Freiherr Won Richthofen Berlin, 1899,
and the presiding officers chosen by host
societies: G. K Gilbert (National Geo.
graphic SocietY; Henry G. Bryant Geo
graphical Society of PHILADELPHIA: r. E.
Peary american Geographical Society,";
R. D. Salisbury Geographic Society of Chi
cago).
General secretary, Henry Gannett.
Treasurer. John Joy Edison.
The Committees.
Committee of arrangements-W. J. Nc
Gee, National Geographic Society, chair
man; Henry G. Bryant, Geographical So
ciety of Philadelphia; George B. Shattuck,
Geographical Society of Baltimore; A. Law
renee Rotch, Appalachian Mountain Club,
Boston; Zonia Baber, Geographic Society of
Chicago: George Davidson, Geographical
Society of the Pacific, San Francisco; Fred
erick w. D'Evelyn, Geographical Society of
California, San Francisco; John Muir. Sierra
Club, San Francisco Rodney L. Glisan,
Mazamas Portland; Angelo Heilprin, Ameri-
can Alpine Club; Herbert L.. Bridgman,
Peary Arctic Club: William Morris Davis,
secretary.
Finance committee-John Joy Edson
chairman; David T. Day, Charles ]. Bell.
Executive committee-R. E. Peary w T.
MCGEE, John Joy Edson ]. H. Mccormick,
w. M. Davis.
Chairmen Of Sections.
Chairmen and secretaries of sections:
Section Autobiography of the land
Chairman. w. M. Davis; secretary. Bailey
Willis.
Section ,B-volcanoes and earthquakes
Chairman. c. H. Hitchcock: secretary. u.
o. Hovey.
Section c-Glaciers- Chairman. H. II.