National Geographic November 1909

The North Pole
On October 20, 1909, at a meeting of the Board of Managers, the National Geographic Society received the records of Commander Peary regarding the discovery of the North Pole on April 6.
The Heart of the Antarctic
Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton’s narrative of a trip that reached the south magnetic pole on January 9 and came within 110 miles of the geographic Pole.
The Temples of India
India’s great buildings, including the YMCA in Bombay and the Great Buddhist memorial mound at Sanchi, are presented in a photographic essay.
Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard: Tribute of respect to the memory of Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, adopted by the Board of Managers of the National Geographic Society at a special meeting held at Hubbard Memorial Hall, October 23, 1909
The recent death of Mrs. Hubbard follows that of her husband, National Geographic Society President Gardiner Greene Hubbard, on Dec. 11, 1907.