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“ With the adoption of the modified form of the journal the publication year was changed from one determined by the working season of the SOCIETY to the calendar year; and it is to cover a hiatus in the SOCIETY'S records growing out of this change that this fifth number of Volume II is issued.
The National Capital seems to be a natural and appropriate place for an association of national character, and the aim of the founders has been therefore to form a continental rather than a local Society. ”

“ The Committee on Publications shall keep a record of all matter published wholly or in part under the auspices of the Society whether the same be author's editions of the memoir-brochures, author's extracts from the magazine-brochures, or any other matter printed from type originally composed for the Magazine.
SEC. 22. The Magazine shall be mailed free to members of the Society not in arrears for dues more than six months, and also to exchanges, and for an annual price of three dollars to regular subscribers. ”

“ As another means of carrying out the purposes of the SOCIETY, regular fortnightly meetings are held for presenting scientific and popular communications on geographic subjects, some of which are published in the National Geographic Magazine. The Society also provides for the delivery of public lectures in Washington upon explorations in little-known countries and upon other geographic subjects. Within a few months lectures have been delivered under the auspices of the Society by eminent explorers or students on the following subjects:
The Explorer in Egypt ”

“ Since the last annual meeting the membership has been increased by the election of 190 new members. It has been decreased by the resignation of 10 members, by the death of 1 member (Capt. C. O. Boutelle) and by the dropping of 15 members for non-payment of dues. The net increase has thus been 164, and the present total membership is 392 as above stated.
This membership is classified as follows:
At the beginning of the year, corresponding members paid no dues. ”

“ The annual dues of active members shall be five dollars, and of corresponding members two dollars, payable during the month of January, or, in the case of new members, within thirty days after election. ”

“ Rules for the orthography of geographic names, II 279
Herschel island, Mackenzie bay, II 188
Hitchcock, Romyn
. *A glimpse of Chinese life in Canton, II 68
*House life in Mexico (
Johnson
) , I 272
Hubbard, G. G.
*Asia, its past and present, II 68
Africa, its past and future, I 99
Progress in geographic study. Introductory address, I 3
*South America, II 293
Hurricanes off the Atlantic coast (
Hayden
) , II 199
of West India, II 203
of Nov. 25, 1888, with map, II 204
St. ”

“ Greely, A. W.
Geography of the air—a report of progress, I 151; II 49, 68, 295
The great storm of March 11–14, 1888, I 37, 88
Green river in the Uinta mountains, its development (
Powell
) , II 100
Hachure and contour drawing, examples of, I 268
Hall, W. H.
Irrigation in California, I 270, 277
Harris' references to Bering's voyage of 1725–30, II 121
*Hawaiian Islands, II 295
Hayden, E.
Law of storms considered with special reference to the north Atlantic, II 67, 199
The great storm off the Atlantic coast March 11–14, 1888, I 40, 88
*Report on the Department of the Sea, II 294
*Samoa ”

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