SECTIONAL .TRANSACTIONS.— E. 377 



14. Mr. A. G. OciiLviE, O.B.E. — The Mappbuj oj Laiin America. 



15. Discussion on the Use of Mercator's Projection for Air-maps. 



Opener: Col. E. M. Jack, C.M.G., D.S.O. 



16. Prof. P. M. EoxBY. — Peking: its place in the life of modern 



China. 



The role of Peking in the liistory of China — External features of the 

 city as reflecting old and new forces in the life of China — The social life 

 of modern Peking — Relation of East and West in the city — A meeting-place 

 of cultural influences — The National University and the Chinese renascence — 

 Peking as the national capital — A discussion of the arguments for and against 

 the removal of the central Government from Peking. 



17. Joint Discussion with Sections and H on Tlir Relation of 



Early Man to Phases of the Ice Age in Britain. Opener: Mr. 

 H. J. E. Peake. 



Tuesday, September 12. 



18. Dr. Vaughan Cornish. — The Isothermal Frontier of Ancient 



Cities. 



The northern frontiers of the great empires of ancient history were con- 

 secutive from the North Sea to the Sea of Japan. The author has examined 

 the position of this line of separation between city life and that of forest and 

 prairie people at the beginning of the second century a.d., not long before the 

 great barbarian irruption, and finds that the present actual mean annual 

 temperature is, with little variation, the same throughout the entire length of 

 about seven thousand miles. The paper contains a table of the recorded 

 temperatures. 



19. Mr. E. E. Walls. — Portuguese Nyasaland: its Geographical 



Problem:-!. 



Geological structure and geographical features — Climatic conditions — The 

 Great Rift valley in Portuguese Nyasaland — The drying up of East Africa 

 and its bearing on development — The population problem. 



20. Miss H. A. Wilcox. — A Scheme for the Preparation of a Map of 



the Earhj Woodlands of Britain. 

 Early woodlands in particular of importance for the interpretation of some 

 other distributions — Construction of map : physical and historical evidence- 

 Illustrations of maps prepared for South-West and South-East England — 

 Uses of the map. 



21. Joint Discussion with Section A (Cosmical Physics Sub-section) 



on Monsoons. Opener: Dr. G. C. Simpson, C.B.E., F.E.S. 



EXHIBITS DUPING THE MEETING : MAPS OF HULL. 



A collection of nia-ps of Hull and the Humber estuary, formed by 

 Mr. T. Sheppard, was on view during the meeting. 



