Evening star., 1914-11-10
Series for the Winter An
nounced by National Geo.
graphic Society Director.
PICURES OF BELGIUM
AND VIEWS OF RUSSIA
Driving Pests From the Globe Also
a Topie-Former President Taft
a Speaker.

The lecture program Of the National
Geographic Society for the winter, be-
ginning with the first lecture Friday
afternoon. has just been announced
by the director and editor of the So
ciety. Gilbert H. Grosvenor. The lee
lures cover a wide range, from Prof
]. H. Cores picture Of the Belgfans
and George Kennan's intimate view OF
Russia to Prof. wyclin Roses "Driv-
ing Pests From the Globe" and DR.. and
Mrs. Workman's Conquest of the
Great Rose and Other Glaciers of In
dia."
The lectures will take place as usual
Friday afternoons and evenings at the
New Masonic Temple.
Owing to the fact that the course last
year developed a deficit, because of
increased expenses, the board of man.
ayers of the society found it neces-
sary to readjust the price of the sea-
son lecture tickets by making both the
afternoon and evening tickets the same
price, and also by making a fractional
increase in the cost of the ticket. Last
year the cost of admission to members
holding evening season tickets was
12h cents per lecture. This year the
cost. per admission, to season ticket
holders will be 1917 cents.
BY the new arrangement each mem
Der of the society will be entitled to
purchase for SO a season ticket admit
ting to all the lectures in the afternoon
or all those at night. The tick cts,
however, are not interchangeable Each
member has the option of purchasing,
son admission ticket for the same
course to which he has already sub
scrtbed. The number of season tickets
Is limited to the capacity of the hall.
Program Of Lectures.
The winters program is as follows:
November 1S-"Belgium and Her Peo.
pie" BY DR.. James Howard Gore, pro-
fessor emeritus of George Washington
University. illustrated with coloreo
lantern slides.
November 20-"Conquest of the Grea,
Rose and Other Glaciers of India" By
Mrs. F. Bullock Workman and DR., W
Hunter Workman. Together they have
carried out seven expeditions of origi-
nal exploration in the Himalayas and
karakorum mountains. Together they
are authors of five books on Himalayar
exploration. illustrated with colore6
lantern slides.
November 27-"The Strength and Vir.
tues of the German People and EN-
pire." By Roland G. Usher, professor
of history in Washington University
of st. Louis; author of "Pan-German-
ISM" etc. Illustrated with lantern
Slides
December 4-"France. Our Sister Re.
public" Arrangements are being com.
pleted to have an address on the Won
derful strides made by France since
the Franco-Prussian war by one whose
broad knowledge of affairs and close
touch with the French people mark
him as master of his subject. The
name of this speaker will be announced
later.
"Sunny Italy" Depicted.
December 4.-"Sunny Italy" By B.
r. Baumgardt Pompeii, City of the
Dead: Florence, the Pearl of Italy
Venice, the City of Dreams, and Rome
the Eternal City, will be described and
pictured in Mr.. Baumgardt's really
wonderful colored slides.
December 1S-'The Fringe of Asia
BY Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams. Mrs
Adams will take her audiences in a
pictorial journey down the east coast
of Asia, from Japan to China. Illus.
trated with. colored lantern slides and
motion pictures.
January s-"The Awakening Of Rus
sia." by George Kennan. author and
traveller. illustrated with colored iah-
January 15-"England, the Oldest Ma
tion of Europe" Beautifully illustrat-
ed. The name of this speaker will be
January "Mohammedan Lands
and PEOPLES" by Rev. DR.. Charles
Wood The followers of Mohammed in
the world are estimated to number
zoo, 900 900 souls. In Turkey, in Pales,
tine in India, in Arabia. in Persia and
in Africa the disciples Of the prophet
trated with colored lantern slides.
Study of Mexican Republic.
January 2s-"Peoples. Places and
Problems in Mexico" by Prof Leslie G.
wells of Clark College. Prof. Wells
has been in Mexico frequently. Speaking
ho+b castilian Spanish and the native