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are necessary for getting into touch with his 

 brother geographers elsewhere throughout the 

 world, and utilising the observations, the thought, 

 the interpretation of these, as well as the accu- 

 mulated writings of their forerunners in the con- 

 certed effort of the whole past and present race of 

 geographers, to visualise and to understand what 

 passes on the surface of the globe. 



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To realise the magnitude of what might be called 

 the geographical group in Britain, we must add to 

 the 4170 members of the society located in London 

 the members of various local societies, such as 

 those in Manchester and Liverpool, and also the 

 considerable number of unattached mapmakers and 

 geographical observers and writers. And, again, to 

 these have to be added the corresponding group in 

 Scotland, of which the Royal Scottish Geographical 

 Society is the nucleus, with its uoo members, its 

 monthly journal and other publications, issued 

 from its headquarters in Edinburgh, there being 

 associated societies in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and 

 Dundee. And, furthermore, every capital in Europe 

 and many of the larger of the provincial towns 

 contain similar groups of professed geographers 

 with similar organisations, journals, and other 

 publications. The New World also has its geo- 

 graphical societies, and with the formation of one 

 in Japan they are penetrating the Orient. Here, 

 then, is no national or even international, but a 



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