NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
THE 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.
MEMBERSHIP
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.
OFFICERS
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 Willis L. Moore, President. Henry Gannett, Vice-President. John Joy Edson, Treasurer. O. P. Austin, Secretary. Eliza R. Scidmore, Foreign Secretary. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Editor.
BOARD OF MANAGERS
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
