Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
Distinguished Foreigners Are
Touring United States.
SPEND SEVERAL DAYS HERE
All Points of Scientific Interest Are
to Be Visited.
GO TO GREAT FALLS TODAY
Luncheon to Be Served There.
Many Noted Educators Among
Members of Party.

The party of distinguished foreign
geographers who have been for nearly
two months touring the United States
under the guidance of members of the
American Geographic Society OF New
York arrived in Washington last night
and will spend today viewing Great Falls
and the gorge below the falls. The party
will be the guests of the Nato Geo.
graphic Society while in Washington and
it's members will be luncheon guests of
the local geographers at Great Falls to-
day.
The visitors are on the final stages of
a tour which has taken them from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast and back.
The tour is the international excursion of
the American Geographical Society, in
honor of the sixtieth anniversary of its
organization. The party came to Wash
ington last evening by special train over
the Southern railway from Chariottes-
vile, at which place the foreigners held
a conference at the University of Viz
g.nia yesterday on methods of teaching
geography in foreign universities. While
in Charlottesville the party also visited
Monticello, the home of Jefferson.
Tour Made Over Country.
The party left New York August %
| going to Niagara, Toronto, Chicago. Du-
| luth and the iron regions, c:le Yellow
| stone Park, Seattle, Portland, Crater
Lake. San Francisco, Salt Lake City,
Denver, the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO, Phoenix and the Roosevelt dam
| in Arizona, Memphies and Chattanooga
Tenn; Asheville, N. c.; Charlottesville
and Washington. They will leave for
New York Wednesday evening. where the
tour will end. Prof. William NJ. Davis OF
Harvard University has been in charge
of the tour throughout.
During their stay in Washington the
visiting geographers will visit practically
all of the scientific bureaus, the tour be-
! ing one of Investigation.
| Monday morning the party will inspect
| the coast and geodetic survey and the
| Library of Congress. lunching at the
Library and the Cosmos Club. Monday
afternoon the United States geological
ing the visitors will take in the forest
| service and the photographic Office, and
| will be entertained at luncheon at the
| administration building of the Carnegie
Institution, where President Woodward
will address them on the geographical
explorations of the institution.
Final Days of Visit.
Tuesday afternoon the weather bureau
is to be visited, and the party will be
| dinner guests Tuesday night of the Ma
tional Geographic Society. at Hubbard
| Memorial building. Wednesday morning
the visitors will inspect the National Mu-
scum, spending the afternoon in visits
to the various scientific bureaus and leav-
| ing in the evening for New York.
l. The party includes many distinguished
men. among them being Prof. Dr. Eduard
Bruckner of the University of Vienna
Prof. Ole Olufsen. secretary general OF
the Royal Danish Geographic Society;
| Henri Baulig, who is instructor in geog-
| raphy at the University of Paris. and
| who spent some time in Washington a
few years ago as instructor in French al
| George Washington University; Prof. Won
| Drygalski, widely known as leader OF
the German polar expedition Of 1901-1903;
Prof. George S. Chisholm, professor OF
| geography at the University of Edin-
| burgh; Prof. Alan G. Ogilvie, demon
strator in geography at the University OF
Oxford; Prof Jeno de Cholnoky of the
University of Koloszvar. Hungary; Count
| Cesare Calciati and Count Giuseppe Ric-
| chieri, Italian representatives; Prof. Jan
| F'rederik Niermeyer, professor of geog-
raphy at the University of Utrecht, the
Netherlands: Vladimir Doubiansky, GU
rator of the imperial botanical gardens OF
St Petersburg, Russia, and a number OF
| others of international reputation.