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Rh 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.