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The National Geographic Society (NGS) headquartered in Washington D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its historical mission includes geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. The Society's logo is a yellow portrait frame which appears on the margins surrounding the front covers of its magazines.

The Society began as a club for an elite group of academics and wealthy patrons interested in travel. On January 13, 1888, 33 explorers and scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club, a private club then located on Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. to organize "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge."
After preparing a constitution and a plan of organization, the National Geographic Society was incorporated two weeks later on January 27. Gardiner Greene Hubbard became its first president and his son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, eventually succeeded him in 1897 following his death.
In 1899 Bell's son-in-law Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was named the first full-time editor of the magazine and served the organization for fifty-five years. Members of the Grosvenor family have played important roles in the organization since.

National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow frame that surrounds its front cover.
There are 12 monthly issues of the National Geographic per year, plus additional map supplements.

On rare occasions, special editions are also issued. It contains articles about geography, popular science, history, culture, current events, and photography. The current Editor-in-Chief of the National Geographic Magazine is Chris Johns, who was named Editor of the Year in October 2008.
With a worldwide circulation in thirty-two language editions of nearly nine million, more than fifty million people receive the magazine every month. In May 2007, 2008 and 2010 National Geographic magazine won the American Society of Magazine Editors' General Excellence Award in the over two million circulation category. In 2010, the magazine also received the top ASME awards for photojournalism and essay.

Well over a century of dedicated, unadulterated scientific study, documentation, exposure and delivery. There is only one magazine that enthralls all readers of all ages in an intentionally vivid and humanly scientific way - that is the National Geographic Magazine.

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