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AUCKLAND: Professor of Geology and associate lecturers from the Teachers’ 
Training College are doing most of the B.A. first year Geography 
course ; Professor J. A. Bartrum, M.Sc., F.G.S.; Lecturers, C. R. 
Laws, M.Sc., and — Jones, B.Sc. (Training College). 
WELLINGTON: Professor C. A. Cotton, D.Sc., F.G.S. (Department of 
Geology); Miss Hilda R. Heine, M.A., Ph.D., for Economic 
Geography. 
CuristcHuRCH: R. S. Allan, M.Sc., Ph.D., Lecturer in Geology (not 
giving instruction in Geography every year); G. C. Billing, Lecturer 
in Economics Department, gives the Economic Geography course. 
In addition, the giving of Economic Geography lectures in Auckland by 
a lecturer in the Department of Economics should be noted. 
“It is worthy of remark that it is not possible to take Geography as a 
subject for the B.Sc. degree, nor to take both Geography and Geology as 
subjects for the B.A. degree on account of the overlapping in Physical 
Geography.’ 
Details of Auckland University College were supplied by Professor J. A. 
Bartrum (Professor of Geology), details of Victoria University College, 
Wellington, by Professor C. A. Cotton, and for Canterbury College, 
Christchurch, by Dr. R. S. Allan (Lecturer in Geology). 
III. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. 
The replies from Australian universities were collected by Dr. Charles 
Fenner, of the University of Adelaide. He summarises the position as 
follows : 
“The attached schedule discloses the replies to the questionnaire 
submitted by the above Committee to the Universities of (1) Sydney, 
(2) Melbourne, (3) Adelaide, (4) Brisbane, (5) Perth, (6) Hobart. 
“Summing up the position it may be said that, except in one instance, 
the teaching of Geography is not in an advanced position in the universities 
of Australia. The exception is the University of Sydney, where a complete 
and well-equipped department of Geography is in existence, carrying out 
a four-year course of work, including Honours, branching into the faculties 
of Science, Arts, and Commerce, and conducting research work. 
“In other Australian universities there exist movements making for the 
progress of geographical teaching ; these come mainly from three directions : 
_ first, from departments of Commerce, which stress the need for the teaching 
of Economic Geography ; secondly, from departments of Geology, where 
it is felt that their physiographic teaching should develop into geographical 
work ; and thirdly, from the public and private schools of the various 
States, where teachers of geography feel the need for university teaching 
and guidance. 
“The movement towards the extension of geographical teaching from a 
geological basis has advanced well in the University of Queensland, as 
reported by Professor H. C. Richards, and also in the University of 
Adelaide, where Sir Douglas Mawson has interested himself in the matter. 
In the latter case Geography is at present a one-year Arts subject ; in the 
former, progress has been held up on account of expense. 
“In the Melbourne University the teaching of Economic Geography is 
on asound basis, and there is some correlation with the Geology Department. 
There is no geographical teaching in Perth, and only a one-year course in 
Economic Geography in Hobart. Thus, apart from the University of 
