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Friday, September 25, 1914 

 contents 



Address of the President to the Geographical 

 Section of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science: Sie Charles P. 

 Lucas 425 



Professor Hugo Kronecher: Dk. S. J. Meltzer. 441 



Scientific Notes and News 444 



University and Educational News 446 



D-iscussion and Correspondence: — 



Mesearch Estailishments and the Universi- 

 ties: Professor W. E. Castle. Chontal, 

 Seri and Yuman: Professor A. L. Kroeber. 447 



Scientific Books: — ■ 



Whipple on the Microscovii of DrinTcing 

 Water: Professor C.-E. A. Winslow. Es- 

 says and Studies Presented to William 

 Bidgeway: Professor George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy 448 



Botanical Notes: — 



A New Nature Boole; A Study of Asters; 

 Short Notes: Professor Charles E. Bessey. 451 



Special Articles: — 



The Alleged Bangers to the Eye from Ultra- 

 violet Radiation: Dks. F. H. Verhoeff 

 and Louis Bell 452 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole 455 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 reyiew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT TO TEE 



GEOGRAPHICAL SECTION OF THE 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE^ 



MAN AS A GEOGRAPHICAL AGENCY 



In an inaugural address to the Royal 

 Scottish Geographical Society on Geog- 

 raphy and Statecraft Lord Milner said: 

 "If I have no right to call myself a geog- 

 rapher, I am at least a firm believer in the 

 value of geographical studies." I wish to 

 echo these words. I have no expert geo- 

 graphical knowledge, and am wholly un- 

 versed in science, but I am emboldened to 

 try and say a few words because of my 

 profound belief in the value of geograph- 

 ical studies. I believe in their value partly 

 on general grounds, and largely because 

 a study of the British empire leads an Eng- 

 lishman, whether born in England or in 

 Australia, to the inevitable conclusion that 

 statecraft in the past would have been bet- 

 ter, if there had been more accurate knowl- 

 edge of geography. This statement might 

 be illustrated by various anecdotes, some 

 true, not a few apocryphal; but anecdotes 

 do not lend themselves to the advancement 

 of science. I am encouraged, too, to speak 

 becau.se the field of geography is more 

 open to the man in the street than are the 

 sciences more strictly so-called. It is a 

 graphy, not a logy. Geology is the science 

 of the earth. Geography is a description 

 of the face of the earth and of what is on 

 or under it, a series of pictures with ap- 

 propriate letterpress and with more or less 

 appropriate morals to adorn the tale. The 

 man in the street may talk affably and even 

 intelligently about the face of the earth. 



1 Australia, 1914. 



