The Washington times., 1923-11-09
NAVAL AVIATION
CHIEF WILL
SPEAK
Geographical Society's Lecture
Program Holds interest
ing Features.

chief of the bureau Of aeronautics,
Navy Department, will open the
1923-24 lecture season Of the Ma
tional Geographic Society November
l6, when he speaks on 1.-THE
Progress of Naval Aviation"
One of the visiting lecturers is
Brig. Gen. Sir Percy Sykes, one of
the worlds foremost authorities on
Persia, who was the first Euro
pean to cross Persia's great desert
in the footsteps Of Marco Polo.
Later he was consul general in
Chinese Turkestan and commanded
the South Persia rifles during the
world war.
To Tell Of Forbidden City.
The first address in this country
by William Montgomery McGovern
on his remarkable pilgrimage to
Lhasa, the forbidden city of the
Unknown Cod" will be delivered
before the. society. DIR. McGovern
will tell Of his approach through
Siklkims of his adventures along
the Himalayan foothills, and finally
of his elaborate DISCUSSES donned
to penetrate the close-guarded and
mysterious city.
A notable address will be that Of
Don Gelasio Caetani, ambassador
from Italy, who will tell of 1.-The
Reclamation of the Pontine
Marshes" Both as an engineering
feat, and because of the historic
setting of the operations, this project
has attracted worldwide attention.
OF great interest to the society's
members will be the address by
DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, president Of
the National Geographic Society, on
1.-THE Biographies Explorations for
Twenty-Five Years"
Accomplishments of Society.
The society's expeditions un-
covered the luxuriant hanging gar
dens Of Inca-land's Babylon, in
Peru; studied giant Katmai, in
Alaska, and discovered the amazing
Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes;
and is excavating pre-Columbian
ruins in Chaco Canyon, New Mex
leo. It's flag was planted by Peary
at the North Pole, and this year
1t flies at the head of a camel cara
van that made its way into Mon
golia, while another party has ad-
ventured among Tibetan bandits in
quest of new plant specimens.
The lectures will be held in the
auditorium Of the New Masonic
| Temple. There will be an address
| in the auditorium every Friday
afternoon at 4:45 o'clock and every
| Friday evening at 8:15, until the
middle of April, except on Deem
Der %. Practically all of the lee
lures will be illustrated with motion
pictures and colored slides.
Complete Program.
The complete program follows:
THE Progress of Naval Avia-
tion," November 1s. by Rear Ad-
miral William A. Moffett.
big Game Of the North Coun-
try" November %, by Harold Nc
Cracker.
"Japan-Feudal and Modern" No
vember 80, by Arthur Stanley
Riggs.
"Persia-the Land and the PEG.
ple," December Z, by Brig. Gen. Sir
Percy Sykes.
Excavations in Ancient Car
thage," December IA, by Count By
ron Kuhn de Prorok.
| Lifting the Veil of Mysterious
Mongolia" December 81, by Roy
Chapman Andrews.
Paraguay and Parana," January
4, by E. M. Newman.
"Zigzagging Trough Sicily" jan
uary IL, by Melville Chatter.
1.-THE Work Of the Engineer Corps
of the United States Army Along
the Mississippi and Other Inland
waterways" January 10, by Maj.
Gen. Lansing II. Beach, Chief OF
Engineers, u. 8. Army.
"The Reclamation of the Pontine
Marshes" January 25 (eveninGs), by
the. ambassador from Italy, Don
Gelasio Caetani.
ION Horseback Across Asia
Minor" January rs (afternoon), by
Robert w. Imbrie.
Madagascar" February 1, by
| Chase Osborn.
BOrderIand of Tibet.
"The Tibetan Borderland," Febru-
ary 8. by Robert +. Fitch.
| "a Hair-Seal Hunt" February Is,
by Robert A. Bartlett.
| "Searching for Birds in South Sea
Islands," February %, by Robert
Cushman Murphy.
"a Pilgrimage to Lhasa, the For
hidden City," February 30, by Will
liam Montgomery McGovern.
"Damming the Colorado" March
Z, by C. H. Birdseye.
1.-THE Biographies Expeditions for
! Twenty-Five Years." March IA, by
Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the
National Geographic Society.
Spain, the Land of Violent Con-
trasts," March 81, ]. Howard Gore.
"Six Brazilian Cities" March %.
| by Mitchell Carroll
1.-THE Latest from the Heavens:
| Recent Achievements in Celestial
Photography" April 4, by B. r.
Baumgardt.
Colorado and the Southwest in
! Natural Colors,' April IL. bv Fred