GO TO CAREY'S NG-COLLECTOR CORNERNGS - Some Facts and Fiction
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1888
The mission statement was clear and stated from the beginning: "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge" - Vol. 1 #1 October 1888 |
| Fiction | 1888
"Alexander Graham Bell organized the National Geographic Society" While he was an original member (one of 165 listed in Vol.1 #1), son-in-law to the Founder (Gardiner Green Hubbard), and an interested scientific mind, he did not organize the Society. Hubbard and five others signed the invitation sent out in Jan 1888 to attend the founding meeting. Of the 33 who attended, Bell was not one of them. (see Jan 1988 issue) |
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Bell was, however, the single most important person involved after Hubbard's passing, who rescued the Society and made the magazine the success that it became. Much is due to his influence and in his cooperation with Gilbert H. Grosvenor (his son-in-law) who he succeeded in getting installed as managing editor of the lagging magazine. (see Sept. 1988) |
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