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of London, and The Direction of Lines of Structure in Eurasia, 

 by Prince Kropotkin, an imijortant paper written in a Russian 

 prison and saved from destruction by the Russian Geographical 

 Society after the escape of its author. 



On August 25, the closing day of the meeting, Prof. W. M. 

 Davis, of Harvard, spoke on the importance of geography as a 

 university subject; General A. W. Greely read a paper by Mr 

 Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, on the Growth and Material Conditions of the United States, 

 and Dr Mill and Prof. Penck exhibited a large number of views 

 illustrative of geographic scenes and conditions. 



While the foregoing represents the work of the Geographical 

 Section, it by no means exhausts the list of subjects of interest 

 to the student of geography that were discussed at the Toronto 

 meeting. In the Section of Mathematics and Physics, on August 

 19, Prof. John Milne presented a report from the Committee on 

 Seismological Observations, and exhibited, for the purpose of 

 illustrating the nature of certain recent discoveries, tlie wonder- 

 fully delicate instruments that are used in locating breakages in 

 submarine cables. On the same day, in the Section of Geology, 

 Prof. J. C. Branner, of Stanford Universit}^ discussed The Former 

 Extension of the Appalachians across Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 and Texas, and Dr F. D. Adams demonstrated the plasticity of 

 rocks. Again, in the Section of Mathematics and Phj^sics, on 

 August 20, Mr Alexander Johnson, of McGill University, dis- 

 cussed the project of an Imperial Hydrographic Surve3% and at 

 the Horticultural Pavilion Prof. H. 0. Forbes, of Livei'pool, 

 lectured on British New Guinea, its People, and the Problems 

 which the Region offers to Geologists and Naturalists. 



In the Section of Meteorology, on August 23, Mr F. Napier 

 Denison, of the Toronto Observatory, discussed the Great Lakes 

 as a Sensitive Thermometer ; Mr John Hopkinson read a paper 

 on The Monthly and Annual Rainfall in the British Empire 

 during the last Twenty Years, Dr Van Rijckevorsel, of Rotter- 

 dam, discussed the Temperature of Europe, laying stress on the 

 influences originating in western Asia on the east and in or be- 

 yond the Atlantic ocean on the west ; Mr R. F. Stupart, of the 

 Toronto Meteorological Department, read a paper on The Clima- 

 tology of Canada, and Mr R. G. Haliburton, a learned member 

 of the Canadian Bar, discussed November Meteors and Novem- 

 ber Flood Traditions. In the evening Prof. John Milne lectured 

 before the Association in general session on Earthquakes and 



