"A Summer in Turkestan."

At a public meeting of the Travellers' Club to be held in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening, at 8 o'clock, Professor W. M. Davis will give an illustrated lecture on "A Summer in Turkestan." Professor Davis's journey, which was made during the past summer, was undertaken on the invitation of M. Raphael Pumpelay, who was conducting an exploration in Western Asia for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, with the object of studying the relation of the geographical features of the region to its occupation by ancient peoples. Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward to Western Siberia, whence he returned by rail to Moscow and St. Petersburg.