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"I possess only the same general interest in geography that should be felt by every educated man," Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the Society's first president said at the organization's inaugural meeting in 1888.
It was Alexander Graham Bell, here pictured near the Society headquarters, who set the mandate for the Society's magazine when he asked its editor and his son-in-law Gilbert H. Grosvenor in 1902 for "details of living interest beautifully illustrated by photographs."
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, the magazine's editor for 55 years, at the foot of a giant sequoias in 1915. On his return from the trip he gave $20,000 in Society funds to help buy Giant Forest and add it to Sequoia National Park. |