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Title: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C. With a Documentary History of the Club from Its Organization to November 16, 1903
Description: Washington, DC, The Cosmos Club, 1904. Hardcover. Tewlvemo. Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Bound in green cloth with gilt stamped titles. 351 pages including frontispiece, plates, portraits, plan, facsimiles 21 cm. The Cosmos Club is a 501(c)(7) private social club in Washington, D.C. that was founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878 as a gentlemen's club for those interested in science.[1][2] Among its stated goals is, "The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art and also their mutual improvement by social intercourse."[3] Cosmos Club members include three United States presidents, two vice presidents, U.S. Supreme Court justices, artists, writers, businessmen, government officials, journalists, scientists, and university presidents, 36 Nobel Prize winners, 61 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 55 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.[4][5] In 1988, the Club opened to women.[4]. VG. Light bumping to corners and some wear along the bottom edge of the boards.

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