Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-06
GEOGRAPHIC TALKS
HERE Announced
Sir William Ramsay, British
Scholar. Will Deliver
First of Series.

Sir william Ramsay. one of Grea'
Britain's foremost scholars,s VIII de-
liver the first ui he la2o-el series OF
National t;ro"raphic Society lectures.
when he addresses members of tf'
society on November Il on ASIA
Minor. the Highway Between last
and West"
The second lecture. November ~.
Will be an account, by Dr. Leona-
Nandenbergh, of his African aoNe2i :
lures which led him to remote soc
tons OF the Congo forest, where he
encountered a queer race OF. pss
DR.. Nandenbergh brought pach ~
civilization a verbal record OF THESE
curious little people, and motion Pc-
lures of them.
Other lectures of the Geographic
course for thes season not only pene-
trate newly explored regions OF Inc
world but deal with areas mat are
politically and economically ne" NC
cause of the Transforming touch .oi
world war and reconstruction tohui
tions Harry 4. Franck. noted 1or ms
''vagabonding experiences. WI 90, l.
on December 10. about his opserNa
tions in Germany After the Arml-
StiCe."
OufpOsts to BE Covered.
The outposts of American. posses
sions will not be. neglected. Gilbert
,;rosyenor, president of the society
who spent the summer in visiting the
important islands of the daWanah
group, where he assembled Mauna Lod
the worlds largest active volcano
will tell about Lovely and Enterpris-
ing Hawaii.
The lectures will be given. as here
e.
Fridays, at 4:45 o'clock ana at e'i'
O'Clock.
Former President William Howard
Taft and DR.. Henry Van Dyke, former
United States minister to the Netn-
erlands, are among the speakers
whose subjects will be announced
later. DR.. Maurice Francis Egan' dip
lomat, will speak on March 49, apout
Denmark and the Danes.
The complete program follows: No
yember ~. Asia Minor. the Highway
Between East and West" by Sir VIII
liam Ramsay: November IL. Pygmies
in Africa" by DR.. Leonard Vanden.
bergh: November 2e; In the Lana nansu 81
december 8, Tibetan Border Land" by
DR.. A. L. Shelton: December 10, Ger
MANY After the ArmiStice. by harry
A. Franck: December II, The Pass-
ing of the Old West, by Nal Charies
Well1nE1On fuTlOHSs JdH0oiy
land" by E. M. Newman; January II,
Scandinavia and the ScandinavianS'
by B. R Baumbardt; January Il. fhe
Humboldt Current and the Islands OF
Jeru," by Robert Cushman MURPHY
curator of natural science OF the
Brooklyn Museum; January %. sub
ject to be announced later. by former
President William Howard Taft; Feb
ruary 4, Hudson Bay and the Polar
Eskimo" by Donald B. Macmillan;
February IL, ION the Parana and the
Paraguay-the Heart of South Amer
lea" by Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams;
February IS, 'The Hittites of Asia
Minor and SYRIA" by D. G. Hogarth.
curator of the Ashmolean Museum,
oxford, England: February Is, sub
ject to be announced later. by DIR.
Henry Van Dyke, former United States
minister to the Netherlands; March
II, The Century of Columbus" by DR..
James ]. Walsh; March Is. Denmark
and the Danes" by DIR. Maurice Fran
els Egan; March IS. Lovely and En-
terprising Hawaii" by Gilbert Gros-
venor. president Of the National Geo
graphic Society: April 1. ''The Lands
Of the Western Pacific" by DR.. Henry
e. CHAMPION. curator of zoology,
American Museum of Natural History:
April 8. speaker and subject to be
announced later.