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THE Royal Geographical Society will celebrate on Oct. 21 and the two succeeding days its centenary of inauguration. The Duke of York will open the proceedings on the afternoon of Oct. 21, and delegates from the Société de Géographie, of Paris, and the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, of Berlin, both of which have already celebrated their centenaries, will present addresses. In the evening, Sir Charles Close, president, Mr. Douglas Freshfield, Sir Francis Younghusband, the Marquess of Zetland, and Dr. H. R. Mill will speak on the history of the Society. On the mornings of Oct. 22 and 23, a series of short papers on “The Habitable Globe” will be read by British and foreign geographers, and in the afternoon of Oct. 23, another series on “Incidents in the History of Exploration” will be read by Lord Lugard, Sir Martin Conway, Sir Francis Younghusband, Sir Halford Mackinder, Col. H. Bury, Mr. J. M. Wordie, and others. The centenary dinner of the Society, at which the Prince of Wales will preside, is to be held on Oct. 23.
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Centenary of the Royal Geographical Society. Nature 126, 608–610 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126608a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126608a0