. Review of reviews and world's work. g to those who know thefacts that the programmes carried out at theWashington, New York, and St. Louis meetingsare regarded as equaling the results of any of thepreceding congresses, and as surpassing them insome respects. This is due to the fact that the American or-ganizers had the cooperation, not only of thefine body of foreign specialists present, but alsoof many leaders who were not here. The paperssent by these absentees make a large and richcontribution to the total outcome. They includeexhaustive papers by such men as Martel, thebest known of the
. Review of reviews and world's work. g to those who know thefacts that the programmes carried out at theWashington, New York, and St. Louis meetingsare regarded as equaling the results of any of thepreceding congresses, and as surpassing them insome respects. This is due to the fact that the American or-ganizers had the cooperation, not only of thefine body of foreign specialists present, but alsoof many leaders who were not here. The paperssent by these absentees make a large and richcontribution to the total outcome. They includeexhaustive papers by such men as Martel, thebest known of the scientific explorers of caves ;Sapper, the authority on the physical geographyof Central America ; Kan. who records geo-graphical progress in the Dutch East Indies ; Le-vasseur, the leading writer on economic geog-raphy in Prance; Rabot, Gautier, Lacointe, andmany others, some of whom have illustratedpapers with new maps in colors, all readyid- publication, while others surprised the Ameri-can programme committee by sending their pa-. COMMANDER ROBERT EDWIN PEARY. (The president of the Geographical Congress. CommanderPeary has announced his plans for a final expedition insearch of the north pole next June.) pers in English, so that they may have a largernumber of readers in this country. If the con-gress did not have the inspiration of their pres-ence, it had some of the best work of thesemen. Naturally, those who came were welcomedwith open arms, headed, as they were, by suchmen as Murray, Mill, and Oldham, of GreatBritain ; Drude, von Pfeil, Hassert, Marcuse,and Schmidt, of Germany ; Penck, Oberhummer,and Erodi, of Austria-Hungary ; Thoulet, de laBlache, Cordier, and Grandidier, of France,and other men of leadership or prominence in thevarious brandies of geography ; and to this bodyof experts were added many of our own leaders,such as Davis ami Gilbert, in physiography ;Peary, the honored president of the congress, inexploration ; Harris, Littlehales, Rauer, Gannett,and many
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