GEOGRAPHIC NOTES
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
AT the last meeting of the National Geographic Society for 1904-'05 President Willis L. Moore announced that the membership of the Society had reached 5,000, making the National Geographic Society the largest geographical society in the world. Nearly every section of the globe is represented in this membership.
The members are reminded that the Society will always welcome from them notes of geographic development and interest. Members are also urged to send to the Society for preservation in its library copies of photographs taken by them, either at home or on their travels, that have a geographic value.
Some features which the National Geographic Society will publish in its Magazine during the next several months are:
An article on "Storms and Weather Forecasts," illustrated with 20 charts, showing storm tracks, hot and cold waves, etc., by Dr Willis L. Moore, Chief United States Weather Bureau and President of the National Geographic Society; an address on "The Philippines," by the Secretary of War, Hon. William H. Taft, with a new map of the Philippines, 23 by 36 inches and in
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From George Fayette Thompson, U. S. Department of Agriculture A Group of Milch Goats. (See page 237)
