April 11, 1890. Special meeting.
Meeting held in the Lecture Hall of the National Museum. Vice-President Hayden in the chair. Attendance, 850.
Ensign J. B. Bernadou, U. S. N., addressed the Society on "Korea and the Koreans." His lecture was illustrated by lantern slides. Revised and published in The National Geographic Magazine. 8°. Washington, D. C. August, 1890. Vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 231-242.
April 18, 1890. 39th meeting.
Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. Vice-President Hayden in the chair. Attendance, 90.
Ensign Hugh Rodman, U. S. N., read a paper on "Icebergs and field ice in the North Atlantic." The communication was illustrated by lantern slides. Published by the U. S. Hydrographic Office with this title—No. 93. Report of ice and ice movements in the North Atlantic Ocean, by Ensign Hugh Rodman, U. S. N., under the direction of Capt. Henry F. Picking, U. S. N., Hydrographer. 8°. Washington, government printing office. 1890. 26 pp. 1 folder, 4 maps.
The paper was briefly discussed by Mr. Hayden.
May 2, 1890. 40th meeting.
Meeting held in the Lecture Hall of the National Museum. Vice-President Ogden in the chair. Attendance, 450.
Mr. W. W. Rockhill read a paper giving an account of "A journey through Mongolia, China and Thibet," made by him in 1888–1889. The communication was illustrated by lantern slides. The material embodied in this paper with much more on the same subject has been published in The Century. 8°. New York, 1890, Nov. Vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 1-17; Dec. no. 2, pp. 250-263; Jan. 1891, no. 3, pp. 350-361; Feb. no. 4, pp. 599-606; Mar. no. 5, pp. 720-730.