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. ' - .. :.- f ^ , 1 r .' .,: - 



,^,n from lluilnon Bay" ami " The BsoddiB 

 .tmda, with IV Species of 



' .inxl in nntm 



-,,tho rVh Fauna 



x is illustrated 



:..! Ilutt.-rni.-s an ! 



.-Truth of Natural Select, on. Poul- 



>,v IMmikt Wth At- 



Uuilic," |,t ..irk- on llran. ' 



stanali/ liv A. H ntoraology 



taAmrrkV' by Inland <>. Howard: " < MI New 



.106009 Of tli- S-Hlh 



sSttahewfta,'* br J. P. White*ves; "On the Sta- 

 tistics Of Bees," br : .-,--. rih: "The \j- 

 . . uiny Woi " tai d irina the 

 Simmer of 1806." by J. I loves Panton : "On a 

 -,-,: ,"byL uisC, Mi.-ill: 

 "On Recapitulation m Development, aj illustrated 

 by the US Hint Masked Ci 

 by M. W. Garntitt i:: "(in ftfosculo-glandular ' 



ii : "<>ii tin- Plankton 



i* r * i 4 A 



continuously during a Traverse of ti 

 Unlit . i.\ W. A. Herdman: "Tin- Determinants 

 for the Major Classification of PishUke Vertebrates" 

 and "On the !> -nil Member in 



i . ,..-. ate*," by Theodora Gill; -The 

 V . ,: - gniflcanoi oi the Comparative 



Study of Cardiac Nenres," by W. H. Gstkell; "<b- 

 serrations upon the Morphology of the Cerebral 



itsmires in the Vertebrata," by G. Klliot 



Smith: "Some i the Symmetry of Actini- 



McMurrich: "Tl..- Natural History 



Lloyd Morgan: "<> i),e Ha-nia- 



tozoon Infectiooj of hinls, w by W. G. MrCallum: 



I<.M-'inlryonic Development of As|id>_ 



. ' l.y .!. Stafford: "On a j.artictilarly 

 Large Set of Ant l.-rs of th<- h' .-rvusela- 



phon). with Photographic Illustrations" and " <>n 

 the Evolution of the Domestic Races of Cattle with 

 Particular t.. tin- History of the Durham 



Shorthorn/ Hughes. 



Also the following reports of committees were 



d and discussed : "Tin- Naj.L- Xooi 



Mi..l,,giral Laboratory. Plvm- 

 .'ilogicnl Hiolio^raphy and Pultliratimi." 

 " Index Oeneruni -t Sj<-i-i-nnn Aniinaliuiu." " /o.".l- 

 ogj and Botany oft: dian I-lands" "Mi- 



gration of Bifds" "Tin- Afri.an Lak<- l-'auna." 



Xofllogvof tin Sandwich Islands." and "The 

 B..logr of Oceanic Ma,, 



'ftography. This section was presided over 

 by Dr. J. Scott Keltie, well known as the editor of 



Statesman's Yearbook." ami a* the sen-. 

 of the Royal Geographical Sx-i.-ty. The subject of 

 Ir. Kcltie'f address was on " Exploration and Geo- 

 graphical Research." !! r-f-rn-d to th- progress 

 made in geography during the past . atxl 



Ai.l * T\*t* tm*mt r-<itil irtt.tit of \ ff i<. Vimo r^Mnt i<.n I ! 



America were unexplored, and much of the interior 

 of South America was unknown. In all parts of 

 Asia rast additions hare been made to our knowl- 

 edge; the maps of the interior of that continent 

 >ixtv year> diagrammatic char- 



acter. TTie Australian interior was nearlv as great 

 a blank a* that of New Zetland had not 



I remind you of th, 



progress which has been made during the period 

 both in the north and south polar nn-as culminat- 

 ing in the magnificent n< } 



It was just sixty rears ago that the great antartic 

 expedition under Sir .Tamea Ross w.. 

 ized: since that, alas, little or nothing has been 



ilow up his work. Sixty years ago the 



n tin- term, did not. 



: .oioii ..f tin. Victorian era. ami 



maybe said almoM to | m v- had its origin in the 



1 ' - :." which added a new 



-n to our - ,c,l up inexhaustible 



fields of research." Mr. Keltie then discussed ttu 



functions and Held ''!'''>' ""d uuli<'atc.l 



ways in which n-'carch might be 



iirofitably carried on in <ir.at Britain ami on the 



European Continenl. II- also n -ferivd i,, u |, 



maincfl to U done in the way of explaining the 



unknown or little-known regions of the 



kid, the moM important ilrm'ilt / 



a- pioiu er expl<. ration js eonei-nied. is southern and 

 central Arabia and Tibet. The forbid-: 



wa-. referred to a- the goal <>' i\.-n- 



. In Africa he called attention to the fact 



that to the <oulli of A bys-Miiia ami to the norlh- 



.. li*udlf. on ihe upper Nile. : 



of considerable extent which is still practically un- 

 kn-.wn. After speaking of the excellent work 

 by t !i< .1 sur\e\ s of ( 'anada .'tnl t he I "nited 



vil to the fact that there " is ample 

 scope for the Study of many problems in pi,, 

 geography p:i-t and present glacial ions and tin- 

 work of glaciers, the origin and /',//'// of lake 

 L the erosion -f river bel<. the (iscillation ..f 

 coast lines." The unexplored region* ,,f Central 

 South America were mentioned, and of South 

 America he said. "There i^ a wider and richer Held 

 for exploration than in any other continent." The 

 conditions in Australia v ! the 



it status of nolar and antarctic exploration 

 fully described. His dosing paragraph consisted 

 of a brief summary of the works (lone in i 

 years in the new science of oceanography. 



Among the more important papers read before 

 this section were the following: " KafiriMan and 

 the Kafirs," by(i. S. Ilobertson: " Novaia Xemlia 

 and its I'i, .graphy." by ]'.. I>.-lmar M-.r- 



gan : "Temperature observation's oiT Spit/be: 

 by B. Leigh Smith: "Scientific Gcograph 

 Schools," bv R. I-!. Dodge; - Kon -try in India." by 

 !'. Bailey; "The c| ; ,-itic :i tion O f Geograt.hv. 

 II. II. Mill: "The Distribution of Detrifclfl by the 

 i-y Vaughn Cornish; i >n Certain Submarine 

 Changes," by John Milne: "The Congo and the 

 -,f (iood Hope, is-12 to 1888," by Kr.,. 

 -.stein : " Institutions engaged in Geographical 

 Work in th- I'nited State,." by Marc-us Maker: 

 "The Hydrography of the I'nited States." by Frank 

 II. Newell : "The Geographical Work of the" t'nited 

 States Coast and (o-odetic Survey." by Thomas C. 

 Mendenhall: "The Coastal Plain of Maine," fci w. 

 Mr.rr: The Tnification of Tin,. 



iiisd'Ti : "The Man-en Lands ,,f Camida,'* 

 by J. R Tvrrell: "The Daily Weather Sur\ 

 the fnited 



graphical Work of the I'nited States fieol- 

 Survey." by Charles D. Walcott ; "The T-.pograph- 

 ical Work of the Canadi..' 3 v." by 



.L White: -The Economic Geography of Uhodesia. 



lourney in Tripoli." by J. T. 



'n tin- Direction of Lines of Structure in 



; "tkin : " iVtanioIngy as a, 



Branch of (Jeography." by A. iVnck : "Geograph- 

 ical I 1 'it of the Lower Mississippi." f,y 10. 

 rthell: " S.utheastern Alaska: Geography 

 and the Cam.ra." by QttoJ. Kloi/ : "Th. 



f Mount L-froy and Mount Aberdeen," by 

 Harold M. Dixon: !ix and Mexico De- 



serta." by ( >. H. Howarth: " The Material Conditions 

 and Growth of the United States." br Henry Chmnett; 

 "Geographical Pictures," byll. 'IJ. Mill: 

 graphical Wall Picture-." by A. Penck : anl "Ge- 

 ography as a Inivensity Subject," by W. M. Davis. 



