Vice-President Greely, Department of the Air, and Vice-President Ogden, Department of the Land, presented their annual reports. Not yet published.
February 6, 1891. 47th meeting.
Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. President Hubbard in the chair. Attendance, 50.
The meeting was devoted to an account of the U. S. S. Pensacola expedition to the west coast of Africa.
Mr. Cleveland Abbe described the cruise in general terms and gave some account of the geodetic surveys executed in and the climate of South Africa.
Mr. Heli Chattelaine, of Switzerland, read a paper on the Dialects and Folk-Lore of the Portugese portion of West Africa.
Mr. Frank H. Bigelow read a paper on the island of Ascension.
February 13, 1891. Special meeting.
Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. Vice-President Greely in the chair. Attendance, 225.
Hon. Geo. B. Loring, Ex-U. S. Minister to Portugal, delivered an address upon the "Kingdom of Portugal." Not published.