Pp. 73. 10^ x 7^ inches. Wash- ington : Government Printing Office. 1904. Excursions and Lessons in Home Geog- raphy* By Charles A. McMurry. Pp. 152. 7^ x 5^ inches. New York : The Macmillan Company. 1904. Students' Laboratory of Physical Geog- raphy. By Albert Perry Brigham. Pp. 153. 7^ x 5/^ inches. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 1905. The Land of Riddles — Russia of Today* ByHugoGanz. Pp.330. 8^x5^ inches. New York : Harper & Bros. 1904.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
THE address on the Philippines
previously announced for Feb-
ruary 3 has been postponed
until after the adjournment of Congress,
as it is believed that official demands will
then permit the Secretary of War to ad-
dress the Society on this Subject.
POPULAR MEETINGS
National Rifles' Armory, 920 G street, 8 p. m.
February 3. — "The Evolution of Rus-
sian Government." By Dr Edwin A.
Grosvenor, Professor of International
Law and Modern Government in Am-
herst College.
February 17. — "Manchuria and
Korea." By Col. W. S. Schuyler,
U. S. A. Illustrated.
March JO.— "The Panama Canal."
Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S.
N., Superintendent of the U. S. Naval
Observatory. Illustrated.
March 24. — "The Commercial Prize
of the Orient and its Relation to the
Commerce of the United States." By
Hon. O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics. Illustrated.
March 31. — "From Lexington to
Yorktown." By Mr W. W. Ells-
worth, of the Century Company. Il-
lustrated.
April 14. — " Fighting the Boll
Weevil." By Dr L. O. Howard, Chief
of the Bureau of Entomology. Illus-
trated.
April 28— " Niagara Falls." By Dr
G. K. Gilbert, Vice-President National
Geographic Society. Illustrated.
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
Hubbard Memorial Hall, 8 p. m.
February 10. — General subject," Pro-
gress in Animal Husbandry." There
will be papers by Mr George M. Rom-
mel, Mr G. Fayette Thompson, and
others of the Department of Agricul-
ture, on the work and plans of the
Department for producing distinctive
American breeds of Horses, on the An-
gora Goat, the Fat Tailed Sheep, the
Barbadoes Woolless Sheep, on the in-
troduction of the Bos indicus, etc.
February 24. — General subject, ' ' The
Botanical Investigations of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture." By Mr F. V.
Coville, Botanist, and members of his
staff.
March 3. — General subject, "Pro-
gress in Plant Physiology. ' ' Papers by
Dr George T. Moore and others on ' 1 In-
oculating the Ground," " Protecting
Municipal Water Supply Systems," etc.
March 17. — General subject,
"Japan."
The Geography of Japan. By Mr
Eki Hioki, First Secretary of the Japa-
nese Legation.
The Fisheries of Japan. By Dr Hugh
M. Smith.
Agriculture in Japan. By Mr David
G. Fairchild.
April 7* — General subject,
' ' Forestry. ' '
Papers by Mr Gifford Pinchot, Mr
Overton Price, and others, of the U. S.
Bureau of Forestry, and a paper on
Japanese Bamboos, by Mr David G.
Fairchild.
