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HE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY was organized and incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia January 27, 1888. The object of the Society is the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge. The Society accomplishes its object:

1. By encouraging worthy plans for exploration and by helping such projects when its resources permit. 2. By publishing an illustrated monthly Magazine and many large maps. 3. By an annual series of thirty addresses at the National Capital, most of which are published in the Society's Magazine. 4. By the maintenance of a library.

Is not confined to professional geographers, but includes many who are interested in the advance of geographic knowledge. Its present membership, at the close of the eighteenth year of its history, is 10,000, of whom 1,400 are resident in Washington and 8,600 distributed throughout every State in the Union and in many foreign countries. Candidates for admission in the Society must be proposed by members. The membership fee is $2 per annum, with no entrance fee. Life membership fee is $50. All members receive free of charge the Magazine and maps published by the Society.

The affairs of the Society are conducted by a Board of twenty-four managers elected by the Society. Eight members of the Board are elected at each annual meeting of the Society. The present officers are  President. ''Vice-President.   Treasurer.  Secretary.''  Foreign Secretary.  Editor.

1903-1905

O. P. Austin

Charles J. Bell

T. C. Chamberlin

George Davidson

John Joy Edson

David G. Fairchild

A. J. Henry

C. Hart Merriam

1904-1906

Henry F. Blount

CM. Chester

F. V. Coville

D. C. Gilman

S. H. Kauffmann

Willis L. Moore

Israel C. Russell

R. D. Salisbury

1905-1907

Alexander Graham Bell

Alfred H. Brooks

Henry Gannett

A. W. Greely

Gilbert H. Grosvenor

Angelo Heilprin

R. H. Tittmann

ohn M. Wilson