GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE JUNE, 1930 ¢ CONTENTS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR Honors to Dr. Hugo Eckener: The First Airship Flight Around the World ‘With 37 Illustrations Cirenaica, Eastern Wing of Italian Libia With 36 Illustrations HARRIET CHALMERS ADAMS On the Edge of the Saharan Sands 13 Natural-Color Photographs LUIGI PELLERANO The Lure of Lima, City of the Kings With 41 Mlustrations WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER Among the Snows and Flowers of Peru 25 Natural-Color Photographs JACOB GAYER PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL alFINEST SELECTION OF LONGINESY OBSERVATORY WATCHES } FOR THE GRADUATE A. WITTNAUER CO.—NEW YORK « CHICAGO » MONTREALVor. LVIT, No. 6 WASHINGTON June, 1930 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Ti; oe Ta aE TED ATER THE FIRST AIRSHIP FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD Dr. Hugo Kckener ‘ells of an Epochal Geographic Achievement upen the Occasion of the Bestowal of the National Geographic Socicty’s Special Gold Medal ORE an audience of more than 6,009: members of the National Geo- graphic Society, including Cabinet officers, members of Congress, diplomats from 35 foreign tations, high-ranking of ficers af the Army and Navy, noted scien- tists, and distinguished citizens, Dr. Hugo ., first in. history’ to siavigate “ari airship around the world, was mwarded the Special Gold Ma of The Society at Washington, -D. C., on the evening of March 27, 1930. Upon the stage of the Washington Au- ditorium with the famons German airship tiuilder and navigator-was His Excelleney Friedrich W. von. Prittwitz urid Gaftren, Germain Ambassador to the United States; Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society, and Dr Jobn Oliver La Goree, its In the attdlience were Frau Doktor Ecke~ ner and Knut Eckener, son of the guest of honor. B je music, in harmony with the the evening, was given by the tates Marine Band Orchestra, and during the program a.remarkable mo- tion picture wis shown of the progres at the Graf Zeppelin on its epocha round-the-world eruise. ‘The presentation of the medal was made by Dr. Grosvenor, who siid: “Members of the National Geographic Society from every State in the Union and distinguished guests from many na~ tions gre assembled to-night to honor Dr. Hugo. ner, of Friddrichshafen, Ger- inatiy, figst man to fly a dirigible around lobe. his noteworthy gathering is repre~ sentative of the 1285,d44 members of the National Geographic Society, residing in 22 maininnd eountrics and on hundreds of islands, from Iceland to Madagascar, Samoa, and Fiji. “Dr, Eckener flew neross three conti- nents, Geographic members. from seven continents acelaim hisachievement—seven: continents, that is, by inehuding Antare- tica, where until recently we had a very farious member visiting, “It is in the name of this world mem- bership that your Board of Trustees have né to bestow upon Dr. Kieke- National Geographic Society's Spe- Medal to commemorate the great contributions to geographic knowledge made hy his air ernise around the world. One side of this medal bears the seal of the National Geographic Society, which om