November 13, 1891. 56th meeting.
Meeting held in the Lecture Hall of Columbian University. President Hubbard in the chair. Attendance, 400.
The exercises consisted of an exhibition of Arctic photographs by General A. W. Greely, U. S. A., comprising lantern-slide views from photographs taken during the expedition to Lady Franklin bay in 1881, and never before exhibited in the city.
November 27, 1891. 57th meeting.
Meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. Vice-President Hayden in the chair. Attendance, 65.
Mr. Herbert G. Ogden made an oral communication on "The geographic position of Mount St. Elias," illustrated by a chart exhibiting the position of St. Elias, Icy bay, Yakutat bay, and the adjacent coast as determined (1) from various surveys compiled by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, (2) by Mark B. Kerr during the first expedition of the Society, and (3) by I. C. Russell during the second expedition.
The communication was discussed by Messrs Mendenhall, Douglas, and Vice-President Hayden.
Mr. E. E. Howell then exhibited and briefly described a relief model of the United States, constructed on the natural curvature, the vertical scale being three times that of the horizontal.
Remarks were made by Messrs Ogden, McGee, Johnson, Mendenhall, Howell, Hayden, and others.
December 4, 1891. Special meeting.