Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-06
LECTURE PROGRAM
FOR SEASON GIVEN
National Geographic Society
to Open Series Of Timely
Addresses November II.

The National Geographic Society in
announcing its lecture program for the
present season, claims to have ar
ranged the most interesting series
of timely addresses it has ever offered.
The season is to open November ~.
when Will Irwin, journalist, author and
traveller, is to lecture on Britain and
the War: the British at Home and on
the Battle Line"
Ernest P. Bicknell, national director
of the American Red Cross, who for
ten months was in charge of the work
Of the American Red Cross in Europe,
is to speak on the afternoon and even
ing of November 10 on THE Price the
Innocent Bystander Pays" his lecture
being a presentation of facts and infor-
nation gained by personal observation
in Belgium, France and other war-torn
countries of Europe.
Other lectures announced in the fall
and winter course are:
November IS. "Socialized Germany"
by Dr. Frederick c. Howe, United
= states commissioner of immigration.
December 3, "A United Russia" by
Leo Wiener. professor of Slavic Ian
guages and literature. Harvard Uni
versity.S
December 10. 1.-The Dardanelles," by
Capt. Granville Fortesque, former mill
tary aid at the White House and at
Peking.
December II, 1.-The wonderlands of
Europe and North Africa" in natural
color photography. by Franklin Price
Knott, traveller, explorer and artist
France From Sea to Sea-
January I, France From Sea to Sea"
tar
who for many years lived in France,
and who has made an intimate personal
study of France and the French people.
January IA. THE Argentina of the
Twentieth Century" by E NJ Newman.
January 81, Our Coast Defenses.v by
Maj. Gen. e. NJ. Weaver, chief of the
United States coast artillery, and a
recognized authority on the country's
needs in the line of preparedness.
January %, THE Whirlpool of the
Balkans" by George Higgins Moses.
former United States minister to Greece
and Montenegro.
February .. The Baltic and It's
Shores" by James Howard Core
February II, lecture by former Presi-
dent Taft, the subject of which is to be
announced later.
February Is. IAN Evening With the
Stars; an Introduction to the Study of
the Heavens" by B. A. Baumgardt.
popular lecturer on astronomy
February 25, Natures Children in
Moving Pictures" by William L. Finley
OF the Oregon game and fish commits
sion
March 3, 'Telephoning Across Con-
tfnents and Oceans" by John J. Carty.
president of the American Institute Of
Electrical Engineering, and chief en-
gtneer of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, who was in charge
OF the work of establishing telephone
communication from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and between the United States
and Paris one side and Hawaii on
the other.
March 10. "spain," by Harriet ChaI-
mers Adams.
"our National Parks,
March II, Our National Parks" name
Of the speaker to be announced later.
March "a. The Strongholds of the
Inca Race" by Prof. Hiram Bingham,
who led the National Geographic So
ciety's Peruvian exploration expedi-
tions in 19l3-1915.
March rs, Behind the Trenches of
European Battlefields" by Irwin s.
Cobb. war correspondent who was one
or a small group of American Journal
lists whose first-hand observations of
the war have given the most adequate
idsa presented to American readers of
actual conditions in the war zones
since the outbreak of hostiiities
March 81. Brazil. the Land of the
Southern Cross, With Glimpses of Uru-
quay by Charles Wellington Furiong,
widely known as a traveller in South
America and keen observer of in
teresting features in the great rubber
producing areas, coffee plantations and
at the many ports along the Amazon
river and its deItas
April Z. The Lincoln Highway-From
the Atlantic to the Pacific" the name
of the lecturer to be announced later
All or the lectures are to be Illus
trated, as usual, with motion pictures
and with colored lantern slides.