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The National Geographic Society (1888), is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization established to promote knowledge of geography, history and culture around the globe. Located in Washington, D.C., the society has sponsored research projects and exploratory expeditions worldwide for many years. Probably best known for the National Geographic Magazine (who among us has never seen a copy?), the society also has a website and television channel.

According to the annals of the society, on the evening of January 13, 1888, 33 men traveled on foot, horseback, and in horse drawn carriages through the streets of Washington to the Cosmos Club, then on Lafayette Square across from the White House. They convened around a large mahogany table to discuss “the advisability of organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.” The entity they were about to create would become the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution in the world.

Its first president was Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist who helped found a school for the deaf and promoted the experiments of his son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell. Acknowledging in his introductory address that he was neither “a scientific man, nor...a geographer,” Hubbard stated, “By my election you notify the public that the membership of our Society will not be confined to professional geographers, but will include that large number who, like myself, desire to promote special researches by others, and to diffuse the knowledge so gained, among men, so that we may all know more of the world upon which we live.”

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