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Following historical Geography, more and more attention 
should be paid to economics. Asa rule economics, as a study, 
was not taken up half early enough. The student appeared to 
be taking great interest in the fiscal controversy. Let him go 
on and prosper, and come to the truth at last—if there was such 
a thing. 
Much of the Geography teaching of the past was good in one 
sense—the children were compelled to work. The tendency of 
modern education was to take work off the child and put it on 
the teacher. If they did so they wouid bring up a generation of 
loafers, with ideas too big for their position. In their teaching 
they must go from theory to practice, and then, and then only, 
they would be truly practical and truly educational. (Cheers.) 
In the course of the lecture a large number of slides were 
shown on the screen, illustrating Britain in the ice age, post 
glacial Britain, the Pennine chain, and the way it had been dealt 
with in railway construction. Maps of isobars and isotherms 
at different periods of the year, and the wind systems were also 
shown and explained, and the lecture throughout was much 
appreciated. 
The President (Mr. W. Lewis Grant), in expressing his appre- 
ciation of the lecture and the study of Geography, stated that he 
once heard the late Mr. Eli Sowerbutts refer to maps produced on 
the Continent as in some respects superior to those produced in 
our own country. ‘They should not lag behind in cartography. 
The discussion was continued by Messrs. Wm. Thompson, 
J. W. Thompson, J.P., T. H. Hartley, J. A. Osborn, B.A., and 
J. 5. Sutcliffe, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the 
Lecturer on the motion of Alderman T. Burrows, seconded by 
Mr. Fullalove. 
