Geographical Society of Philadelphia

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Geographical_Society_of_Philadelphia

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:learned_society
gptkbp:founded	1891
gptkbp:founder	gptkb:Angelo_Heilprin
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Geographical Society of Philadelphia
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_United_States
gptkbp:notable_member	gptkb:Bruce_Chatwin gptkb:Jan_Morris gptkb:Thor_Heyerdahl gptkb:Angelo_Heilprin gptkb:Simon_Winchester gptkb:Colin_Thubron gptkb:David_Attenborough gptkb:E.O._Wilson gptkb:Elizabeth_Kolbert gptkb:Jane_Goodall gptkb:Jared_Diamond gptkb:John_McPhee gptkb:Michael_Palin gptkb:Peter_Matthiessen gptkb:Rebecca_Solnit gptkb:Wade_Davis gptkb:Roy_Chapman_Andrews gptkb:Pico_Iyer gptkb:Patrick_Leigh_Fermor gptkb:Dervla_Murphy gptkb:Eric_Newby gptkb:Redmond_O'Hanlon gptkb:Robert_Macfarlane gptkb:Sara_Wheeler gptkb:Wilfred_Thesiger gptkb:William_Morris_Davis gptkb:Freya_Stark gptkb:Jacques-Yves_Cousteau gptkb:Paul_Theroux gptkb:Robert_Ballard gptkb:Vilhjalmur_Stefansson gptkb:Matthew_Henson gptkb:Richard_E._Byrd gptkb:Robert_E._Peary gptkb:Ryszard_Kapuściński gptkb:Sylvia_Earle gptkb:Timothy_Ferris gptkb:Norman_Lewis gptkb:Hiram_Bingham_III gptkb:Paul_Salopek gptkb:Bill_Bryson gptkb:Laurie_Lee gptkb:Frederick_Courteney_Selous gptkb:Lowell_Thomas gptkb:Blair_Niles gptkb:Herbert_Welsh gptkb:Simon_Reeve gptkb:Mark_Kurlansky gptkb:Carl_E._Akeley
gptkbp:notableEvent	publications on geography support for expeditions sponsorship of lectures by explorers and scientists
gptkbp:purpose	promotion of geographical knowledge
gptkbp:website	https://www.geographicalsociety.org/
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Henry_G._Bryant
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6