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could not fail to create a demand for more niaterial of the same kind. Later re- 

 ports in succeeding years would be looked for with expectant interest. The sub- 

 ject of school geography would be greatly enriched ; the enriching influence would 

 work downward into the lower schools ; it would in time make its appearance in 

 new text books. The new geography would hardly be recognized by those who 

 had studied only the old geography, in which merely descriptive or statistical ac- 

 counts of boundaries, capes, river branches and mountain heights constitute too 

 large a proportion of the subject-matter. 



The cost of an effective geographical chapter in an annual report need hardly be 

 so great as to be prohibitive. A month or two of field work and perhaps as much 

 more in oflice work should suthce for an experimental beginning. The processes 

 of outdoor photography and of reproduction of photographic plates" are now so 

 greatly simplified and cheapened that good illustrations are within reach at mod- 

 erate expense. The report once prepared, the cost of striking ofi" additional thou- 

 sands of reprints is relatively trifling. 



It has been suggested that work of this kind could not be undertaken by reason 

 of the want of geographical assistants. Such a want would not exist long if it were 

 announced. Ten or fifteen years ago there were no petrographers. Now the edu- 

 cational market is well stocked with them, and the change shows how prompt the 

 educational supply will respond to the professional demand. There is no reason 

 to think that a demand for geographical assistants would not be met in a few years. 

 Competition would soon improve the quality if it were not high enough at first. 



It is of course not to be expected that geographical work will be taken up largely 

 at once. Some of the state surveys might not be allowed to undertake it by the 

 terms of the law under which they are now working. Others might be fully en- 

 gaged in certain problems from which they could not for some time spare either 

 men or money ; but among them all it is to be hoped that a few may in the course 

 of the next year or two enter on this attractive and popular field, feeling their way, 

 as it were, in the public mind. For one, I feel confident that the public mind will 

 welcome their work. 



The next paper by the same author was illustrated by lantern views. 



FACETTED PEBBLES ON CAPE COD 

 BY WILLIAM M. DAVIS 



The paper was discussed by G. K. Gilbert, N. S. Shaler and the author. 

 An abstract of the paper, with the discussion, is published in The Ameri- 

 can Geologist, volume xiii, February, 1894, page 146. The full paper is 

 published in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 volume xxvi, 1893, pages 166-175. 



The lantern views in illustration of the next paper were presented by 

 Professor Davis, and the sections and maps by Mr Griswold. 



EASTERN BOUNDARY OF THE CONNECTICUT TRIASSIC 

 BY W. M. DAVIS AND L. S. GRISWOLD 



This paper is printed as pages 515-530 of this volume. 



