Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10
COURSE OF LECTURES
WINTER PROGRAM OF NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
With lectures by Commander Robert E.
| Peary, q. S. NJ, who recently established
| a new "farthest north record, and by Dr.
f. A Cook Of Brooklyn, who accomplished
the ascent Of Mt. Mckinley, the highest
| mountain in North America, as promised
features. the National Geographic Society
| has issued its program of its winter lecture
course Of 1906-O7. Dates for the Peary and
Cook addresses will be announced as soon
as arrangements can be made suitable to
| each of the two explorers. The society will
continue its plan of giving one series Of
popular lectures, the general subject this
year being ''Pan-America," and a scientific
| course, the former to be held in National
Rifles Armory, 900 G street northwest and
the latter in the home Of the society, Hub
bard Memorial Hall, 10th and M streets
northwest. S
Opened Last Night.
| Besides the Peary and Cook addresses, the
public course, beginning with lecture last
night by John Barrett, U. 8. minister to
Colombia, includes the following:
| November 9-"Colombia-e Land OF Great
Possibilities" By John Barrett, U. s. min
lister to Colombia. Illustrated.
November 16-"Digging the Ditch" By
DR.. Willis Fletcher Johnson. associate ed
itor of the New York Tribune and author of
-Four Centuries of the Panama Canal"
Illustrated.
November 3o-"Beautiful Ecuador" By
Joseph w. Lee. o. s. minister to Ecuador.
December 1.-THE New China" By John
W. Foster, formerly Secretary Of State and
chairman Of the Chinese delegation to The
Hague.
Deeemher 1I"Rnssia and the nunaa
BY Mr.. William E. Curtis. Illustrated.
December Flour Immigrants; Where
They Come From, What They Are. and
What They Do After They Get Here" BY
F. P. Sargent commissioner general of i'm
migration. Illustrated.
January 4"Camping Expeditions in the
Canadian Rockies" By Mr.. Howard Du
Bots.
January 1s-"The Guianas." By Prof.
Angelo Heilprin of Yale University Illus
trated.
January 25"Bolivia-a Country Without
a Debt By the Bolivian minister, Senior
T. Calderon. Illustrated.
February 1.-THE Pacific Coast" By
George c. Perkins. United States senator
February SAN American in Cuba" BY
Mr.. Walter D. Wilcox. Illustrated.
February 15-"Ten Years of Polar Work;
or, What We Know and What We Want to
Know" BY Mr.. Herbert L. Bridgman, Sec
rotary Of the Peary Arctic Club. Illus
trated.
MATCH l. SodulO OOIlQSO ana f1dlCl. by
Rear Admiral Chester. United States navy.
Illustrated.
March 15-''The Regeneration of Korea"
By George KEENAN,. Illustrated
March 23-"Queer Methods Of Travel in
Curious Corners of the World" By o. P.
Austin, chief bureau Of statistics. Illus
trated
March 29-"Mexico- Treasure House OF
the World" illustrated.
April ga Popular Explanation of Earth
quakes and Volcanoes" By DR.. G. K. Gill
bert of the United States geological survey.
Illustrated.
April 12-"Captain John Smith and Old
Jamestown" BY w. w. Ellsworth Sec
rotary of the Century Company.
Scientific Course.
November 10-"Prosperous Porto Rico"
BY William F. Willoughby, treasurer Of
Porto Rico.
November 23-"The Great New Lake in
Southern California Made by the Colorado
River By DR.. A. p. Davis. assistant chief
engineer. United States reclamation SER
December 1O-"Agricultural Progress Tn
the United States" By Willett M. Hays,
assistant secretary Of agriculture. Illus
trated
December 17-"Enterprising SIAM" By
Henry 8. Kerr Of New York. Illustrated.
December 2S-"Acclimatizing Fisheries; OF,
Transplanting Fishes from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and Vice Versa, etc." By DR..
Hugh M. Smith. deputy commissioner, bu-
reau of fisheries. illustrated.
January 11-Annual meeting. Aboriginal
Agriculture in Guatemala" BY o. F. Cook
of the United States Department of Agri-
culture. illustrated.
January 16-"The United States Forest
Service" By Clifford Pinchot, forester.
Illustrated.
January 22-"The Coal Lands of the
United States Public Domain" BY NJ.
r. Campbell of the United States geological
survey. Illustrated.
February ga Visit to Sumatra" BY
George H. Peters of the United States
naval observatory. illustrated.
February 18+"Reclaiming the Desert
BY C. ]. Blanchard of the United States
reclamation service Illustrated.
February 22-"Reciaiming the Swamp
Lands of the United States" By H
M. Wilson Of the United States geological
survey. Illustrated
March 8-'Twenty Years In Beirut and
Damascus: or, The Syria of Today" BY
Rev. F. E. Hoskins. Illustrated.
March 22-"Utilizing the Surface Waters
of the United States for Power" By
H. A. Pressey, c. E. Illustrated.
April 6-"The South Sea islanders" By
A. B. Alexander of the United States bu-
reau of fisheries. Illustrated.
April 19-'"The Bureau Of American Re-
publics." BY w. C. Fox. director of the bu-
reau of American republics.
The annual banquet Of the society will be
held In December at the New Willard