Evening star., 1928-11-18
LECTURERS TO GIVE
ACCOUNT OF TRIPS
National Geographic Pro-
gram Includes Amelia Ear
hart'S Story of Flight.

A longitudinal horseback ride up
South America, a trek southward
through the leass-viSited core of Africa,
the newest search for the Oldest man"
in Asiatic deserts, a flight across the
| Atlantic and visits to exotic tropic
lands and island5-these are a few of
the features announced for the 1928-29
lecture program CT the National Geo.
graphic Society, made public today.
! The lectures again will be held at the
washington Auditorium Fridays eve
ningS throughout tac season, beginning
at 815 o'clock. The first will be given
next Friday evening, when A. F. Tschif-
| fey will tell how he rode horseback
from BuenoS Aires to Washington, a
trip of two and one-half years, which
not only YVES memorable feat of horse
! manship and courage but enabled him
to traverse many less well known Sec
tionS of South America. One of his
two mounts, Of native Argentine stock
directly descended from the Spanish
| Arabian horses of the Pizarro era, was
Is years old at the beginning of the
trip.
OF special interest to Washington
ans will be Paul Wilstachs lecture on
December IA on "Tidewater Potomac"
when the author of Potomac Landings"
will unfold the history and geography
of the Potomac below Washington,
dwelling especially with the Mount
Vernon region.
Will Describe Explorations.
Members will await with keen inter
est DR.. Thomas A. Jeggar'S resume OF
the past Summers work of an expedi-
ton sent by their society to Alaska to
study the volcanic area in the vicinity
of Pavlaf. DR.. Jaggar will describe his
explorations in this home of the great
brown bear, reveal a new American
wonderland that promises to vie with
the Mount Katmai region which the
society previously explored. and recount
the party's adventures with the am
phibian boat, novel adjunct to eXplo-
ration devised TO run either on the
beaches or in the water.
All the lectures will be illustrated.
some with motion pictures and others
with slides in natural colors of exquisite
beauty, such as those which Andre
Roosevelt will employ on January 4 to
reveal the exotic and colorful island of
Bali, "The Garden of the Gods"
At the second lecture, November 80,
Capt. Carl Won Hoffman will describe
his adventurous 6,oo0-mile journey from
Cairo to the Cape, an amazing journey
wherein he encountered every sector of
Africa's strange life-savages in weird
dances, ferocious beasts and the natural
wonders Of the Nile, Sudan. Congo and
the Zambezi River, Another jungle
story will be that related by Carveth
Wells, who will describe MY Six Years
in the Malay Cungles."
Account of Sea Hop.
Amelia Earhart will give her first ac-
count in Washington of her tranSatlan-
tic flight; Capt. c. w. r. Knight, one
of the worlds foremost photographers
of bird life, will lecture on wild Life
in the Tree Tops" of the British Isles;
Lowell Thomas will take his audience
into Forbidden Afghanistan," and
George NJ. Dyott will tell of his search
in Brazil's wild jungle west for Col
Fawcett.
The complete lecture program for
Horseback From Buanos Aires to
Washington" by A. F, Tschiffely; No.
yember 80, Prom Cairo to the Cape"
by Capt. Carl Won Hoffman: December
z, "The Newest Search for the Oldest
Man." by Roy Chapman Andrews; De-
cember IA, "Tidewater Potomac" by
Paul Wilstach; December 81. MY Six
Years in the Malay Jungles," by Car
veth Wells; January 4, Bali, the Gar
den of the Gods" by Andre Roosevelt;
January II. The National Geographic
Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar; January 18,
"The Flight of the Friendship" by
Amelia Earhart; February 8, wild
Life in the Tree Tops" by Capt C. w.
r. Knight, M. c.. F. r. P. S., F. z. S.;
February Is, "The Search for Col.
Fawcett." by Comdr. George NJ. Dyott;
March l, announcement to be made
later; March 8. Into Forb' dden At
ghanistan," by Lowell Thomas: March
Is, announcement to be made later;
DR.. Raymond Lee DitmarS: April s.
"Cannibal Isles of the South Seas" by
Sinclair MacKaY