SECTION E.— GEOGRAPHY. 



CORRELATIONS AND CULTURE 



A STUDY IN TECHNIQUE 



ADDRESS BY 



Prof. GRIFFITH TAYLOR, 



PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION. 



CONTENTS 



A. Geography and the Social Sciences. 



B. Geography and History . 



C. Evolution of Life and Culture. 



D. Relations of Culture and Race. 



E. General Ecological Approach to Problems in Cidttire. 



F. Correlations in the Distributions of Languages. 



G. Ecological Notes on the Aryan Problem. 

 H. The Race of the Early Aryan- Speakers . 

 I. Graphs of Culture Growth. 



J. Determinism v. Possibilism, in Canada and Europe. 



K. Culture in the Twentieth Century. 



L. Bibliography. 



A. Geography and the Social Sciences. 



I much appreciate the honour of addressing the Geographical Section in 

 my old Alma Mater, especially in this fine monument to the importance 

 of Geography directed by my former sledge-mate, Prof. Debenham. 

 Many presidential addresses have been devoted to a survey of the pro- 

 gress made in one or another branch of our very varied discipline during 

 the past twenty years. This is a safe and sane programme — but is not, 

 I think, so likely to stimulate research as the unsafe and, as some would 

 say, insane attempt to forecast somewhat of the advancement of Science 

 in our special field during the next twenty years. There seems indeed 

 something incongruous in a scientist from the Antipodes trying to say 

 something new on the subject of culture amid these colleges renowned 

 for their study of arts and letters. How can the experience of a geo- 

 grapher, based on the study of contours, isobars, isotherms and all the 

 other isopleths which adorn modern maps, help us to obtain a more valid 

 interpretation of that elusive concept which we call culture ? In my 

 address I propose first of all to consider the field of cultural geography ; 

 then to discuss a technique which I have found invaluable in research in 

 that subject ; and finally to suggest that modern education would do well 



