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without expense to -the centi'al office, since 

 the sales are estimated to fully cover all 

 cost of manufacture. The only matter un- 

 provided for is that of preparing the Eecord 

 for the printer, and this is already so far 

 provided for that if America can contribute 

 $500.00, the beginning of the work with 

 the year 1896 can be assui-ed. 



Your committee, having examined the 

 matter in detail, would, therefore, report 

 that they regard the plan as one worthy the 

 fullest support of the American scientific 

 world. They recommend it as worthy of 

 financial support and would urge all pub- 

 lishers and publishing institutions to send 

 all periodicals and other works (or in the 

 case of books at least the correct title and 

 a summary of contents prepared by the 

 author) promptly to the central bureau. 

 They would fiuallj' recommend the appoint- 

 ment of a permanent committee of ten to 

 cooperate with similar committees in other 

 countries in forwarding the movement. 

 (Signed) Samuel H. Scuddee, 



h. p. bowditch, 

 Heney F. Osboen, 

 E. A. Andeews, 



J. S. KiNGSLEY, 



Committee. 

 Since the above report was drawn up 

 substantial progress has been made. The 

 funds desired from America have been ob- 

 tained: §250 from the Elizabeth Thomp- 

 son Fund, $250 from the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science and 

 $50 from the American Society of Micro- 

 scopists. Arrangements have been con- 

 cluded for the publication of a '■Biblio- 

 grapliica Zoologiea,' as a continuation of the 

 ' Litterateur ' of the Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 and a ' Bibliographiea Anatomica,' to contain 

 the morphological articles. The price of 

 the Bibliographiea Zoologiea will be 15 

 Marks yearly. It will be published by 

 Engelmann, of Leipzig. The price of the 

 Anatomica has not been settled. Cards 



containing the titles will be issued at from 

 $2.00 to $3.00 a thousand, according to the 

 number taken. Arrangements are now in 

 progress for the inclusion of physiology in 

 the plan, and steps have already been 

 taken looking to the later incorporation of 

 botanical literature. 



CUBBENT NOTES ON PHYSIOGBAPHY {XVIII. ) . 

 MAOKINDEE ON ENGLISH GEOGEAPHY. 



The address to the geographical section 

 of the British Association last summer by 

 Mackinder, reader in geography at Oxford, 

 reviews the progress of the science in gen- 

 eral, with especial reference to its advance 

 in Germany. The still low position of ge- 

 ographical instruction in England is la- 

 mented, in contrast with its promotion on 

 the Continent. There " some of the profes- 

 sors, as Eichthofen, of Berlin, and Penck, of 

 Vienna, have worked mainly at geomorphol- 

 ogj; others, such as Kriimmel, of Kiel, at 

 oceanography; others, again, such as Bat- 

 zel, of Leipzig, at anthropography; while 

 Wagner, of Gottingen, has been conspicu- 

 ous, in cartography, and Kirchhoff, of Halle, 

 and Lehman, of Miinster, in questions of 

 method." In England, on the other hand, 

 while an historical or classical student lis- 

 tens to a dozen different teachers at Oxford 

 or Cambridge, a single lecturer at each uni- 

 versity is charged with all geography. This 

 wide subject has no appreciable position in 

 degree examinations; there are no examina- 

 tions at all for the post of secondary teacher, 

 nor is there anywhere in the land anything 

 really comparable to the German geograph- 

 ical institutes that form so important a 

 part of the geographical equipment in cer- 

 tain universities. 



The recognition of Mackinder's work in 

 his election to preside over the geograph- 

 ical section of the Association is, however, 

 an indication that even Englishmen are be- 

 ginning to recognize that geographers, both 

 explorers and teachers, need serious and 



