248 THE BRITISH ASSOCIA TION 



the great Asiatic plateau has modestly narrated the story of his 

 travels and his discoveries before the British Association, 



If the recent Toronto meeting will not be remembered for any 

 dramatic incidents or other highly sensational features, it was in 

 many respects a notable gathering and by no means lacking in im- 

 portant contributions to geographic science. The address of the 

 President of the Geographical Section, Mr J. Scott Keltic, I.L. D., 

 Joint Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society and Editor of 

 the GeographicalJournal and of the Statesman's Year-Book, dealt 

 with the geographic problems of the future and set forth in ad- 

 mirable and most instructive array the various regions of the 

 globe that are still wholly or in large part unexplored. This 

 address is published, with but very slight abridgment, in the 

 following pages, as a matter not merely of general interest, but 

 of especial value to teachers and geographic students who find 

 it difficult to keep abreast of geographic research in the more 

 remote parts of the world, 



Dr Keltic's address was delivered on August 19, and in the 

 afternoon of the same day Sir George Scott Robertson, the Hero 

 of Chitral, described Kafiristan and the Kafirs ; Mr E. G. Raven- 

 stein, of London, presented the sixth report of the Committee 

 on the Climatology of Africa, a subject of great interest in view 

 of the recent extension of European territory on that continent ; 

 Mr E. Delmar Morgan, of London, read a paper on Nova Zem- 

 bla and its Physical Geography, summarizing the results of re- 

 cent Russian investigations and presenting the conclusion that 

 the country is now undergoing a new process of glaciation that 

 will convert it into an icy wilderness ; Mr B. Leigh Smith, also 

 of London, spoke on Recent Temperature Observations off Spitz- 

 bergen, and a voluminous report was presented on The Position 

 of Geography in the Educational System of Great Britain. 



On the following day the proceedings of the Geographic Sec- 

 tion included a paper by Prof, Richard E, Dodge, of the Teachers 

 College, New York, on Scientific Geography for Schools, which 

 was a plea for the more scientific teaching of geography in the 

 public schools and for systematic cooperation in the bringing 

 about of a much-needed improvement ; a paper by Col. F. Bailey, 

 of Edinburgh, on Forestry in India, showing the serious results 

 of forest denudation in that country and the measures that have 

 been adopted to remedy the evil; a Scheme of Geographical 

 Classification, by Dr Hugh Robert Mill, of London ; a paper by 

 Mr Vaughn Cornish, on The Distribution of Detritus by the Sea; 



