Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-13
LIST OF LECTURES ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
National Geographic Society
Announces Winter Program.
TWO TO BE GIVEN EACH DAY
First Will Be Next Friday on Pres
ent Conditions in China" by
Frederick Mccormick.

The National Geographic Society has
completed It's program of lectures for the
coming winter. Included in the list are
men prominent in the .entific world and
well known travellers The society has
announced that because the largest audi
forum available is inadequate to accom-
modate all members OF the National
Geographic Society who desire to attend.
the board of managers mas arranged to
give each lecture twice on the same day
in the same hall The first lecture will be
al 40 clock in the afternoon and the
second at S:l5 O'Clock at night The
afternoon and evening lectures will be
identical in every respect. The lectures
will he given in the New Masonic Temple.
The program of lectures is:
November IL = Present conditions in
China" b. Frederick MEG mick. Mr..
Mccormick was tor many years .Asso-
ciated Press correspondent az Pekins, anu
is personally acquainted with the readers
OF the recent government changes III
China, He speaks Chinese. ana Is stu
dent of Chinese literature and history.
His articles n the Outlook Century Mag
azine etc. have made HIM VEL known 10
the American public. WITH coioreo shoes
and motion pictures.
\u<e..uer "a l.ipoli of Barbary: the
Gateway 10 the Sahara. BY Charles ".
Fur ong, author OF a fascinating volume
on the same subject 1t was MI L UT
long who located in the harnor OF
Trpol several years ago the wreck Oh
the United States fr.Safe Phl.adeipnia.
which was sunk by Decatur In lsuf Inc
lecture Is illustrated with views taken by
nm showing the customs and industries
of the BarbaTy capital, which is the focus
OF the great Sahara caravan routes Flc-
turesque beautiful, they are fuli not
-.t,I NrFp
hut OF the great realit' es and interesting
incidents of native life, as found In the
Moorish verdant towns. GASES ana the not
soltudes OF the great desert. Illus
trated with colored 81 des
Art Treasures Of Italy.
December 1-"Italy Of Today" BY Ar
thur s. Riggs. Mr.. Riggs will give an
account of the Ital ans and describe some
az the art treasures of Italian cites. The
lecture will be wonderfully illustrated
with co ored lantern slides and moving
cycloramas.
December S-.The Young Turks BY
Rear Admiral Colby NJ. Chester. United
States Navy Admiral Chester spent the
better part of the last four years in Con-
stant.nople and in other portions OF the
Ottoman empire. He has closely followed
the progress of the Young TUCK party
and will give the society an instructive
able advance in good government mace
by Young TURKS. With colored slides
and motion pictures
December 1.-THE Blackfeet Indians.
By Walter McClintock, author OF Tae
old North Trail and ador ted son or
Chief Mad Wolf. Mr.. McClintock has
spent fourteen years among the Black
feet Indians of the great plains and in
the northern Rockies. He will take his
audience into the heart of the Rockies,
with the dazzling wild flowers, the tall,
stately pines and frs. the CLASSY mountain
lakes, throug and over narrow shelving
trails, to the crest where glaciers lie the
wear round feeding the whipping noun
tain streams and wild. foamy cascades
trembling between sheer precipices and
frownIng mountain fastnesses-to the
western slope and the level plateau. into
the heart Of the Indian country. with
circular tepee villages and the wild In
headdress and his beads and bone neck
laces." With colored slides and motion
pictures.
January 5. 1912-"A woman's Climbs in
the High Alps: the Ascent Of Monte
Rosa. the Breithorn. the Matterhorn. and
Mont Blanc" by Miss Dora Keen. With
colored slides and motion pictures.
January 12-"The Balkan States; Mon
teneneero. Servia and Bulgaria" by E.
L. Newman. The ambitions. beauties and
romance OF this picturesque part Of Eu-
rope Will be described by one who knows
them well. With colored slides and mo-
ton pictures
The Japanese in Formosa.
January 19-"what the japanese Have
Done for Formosa," by Dr. Inazu Nitobe
Of the University Of Tokyo Illustrated
with colored slides.
January 2-"Morocco and Her Neigh
bors." by Frank Edward johnson, au-
thor of "Tunis," THE Molemen." etc.
in the National Geographic Magazine.
Illustrated with colored slides
February 2-"How the World is Fed
by DR.. I'll. w. Wiley. chief of the bureau
Of chemistry of the Department Of Agri-
culture. illustrated with colored sides
February e"Personal Experiences in
he Far East" by George KEENAN,. au-
thor of Tent Life in Siberia" Siberia
and the Exile System" Illustrated with
colored slides
February 16-"From the Amazon to the
Ortnoco: The Five Guianas-Brazilian
French. Dutch. British and Venezuelan,
by Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams. With
colored slides and motion pictures
February 23-Dr. Alexander Graham
Ben will address the society. The sub
iect OF the lecture will be announced
later. With colored slides and motion
pictures.
March 1.-THE Oceans and Their In
habitants." by o. r. Austin. chief of the
secretary of the National Geographic So
ciety. With colored slides and motion pic
lures.
March S-"The Glaciers of Alaska" by
Prof. Ralph 8. Tarr of Cornell University
and leader of the National Geographic
Societys Alaskan expeditions OF 1OO9-191l
Illustrated with colored slides
Mr.. Chapman in Colombia.
March ia Naturalist's Observations
IN Colombia by Frank NJ. Chapman of
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory. Illustrated with colored slides
March 22-"In the Wilds of Brazil. With
An Account OF Roraima and Kaieteur the
Great Mountain and the Great Falls of
the Guianas," by DIR. Henry r. Champion
of the American Museum of Natural His
tory. With coiored slides
March 26-"Paui at Athens" by Dr.
Mitchell Carroll, secretary OF the Arch
Biological Institute OF America
March 29-It is hoped that Capt. de
Chambrun, military attache of the
French embassy. will be able to accent
the invitation of the society to give an
address on the French Explorations In
Africa" Count de Chambrur has taken
distinguished part in the exploration
Of North Africa, and has made notable
contributions TO our knowledge of por-
tions Of the continent.
April b-"Japanese Gardens" by Miss
Eliza X. Scidmore. author OF "Jinrikisha
Days in Japan China, the Long-lived
Empire. Java, the Garden OF the
East etc. illustrated with coIored