1879. Geography and Travels. 463 
marks the middle of the last molar tooth. Length of molar 
series, .118 m.; of true molars, .050; length anterior to molars, 
061 ; width between last molars, .040 ; diameters of crown of sec- 
ond true molar, fore and aft, .017, transverse, .022; length of 
tibia, .285 ; of metacarpal, 2 i; 
GEOGRAPHY AND ESATE 5 
it. may be as well said of America as of En pine that “there are 
few countries in which a high order of geographical teaching is 
so little encouraged,” the importance of such knowledge is recog- 
and the Lehigh to this address. is given in full in the “ Pro- 
e Council include in the word Geograp hy “a compendious 
Hesuncean of all the prominent conditions of a country, such as 
its climate, configuration, minerals, plants and animals, as well as 
its human inhabitants; the latter in ee not only to their 
race, but also to their present and past history, so far as it is 
intimately Soupteied Pats the peculiarities of the land they 
inhabit. * “Among the many classes of prob- 
lems that ei Wide these heads, it is sufficient to specify two. 
The one deals with the reciprocal influence of man and his sur- 
roundings, showing on the one hand the influence of external 
nature on race, commercial development and sociology, and, on 
the other, the influence of man on nature, in the clearing of 
forests, cultivation and drainage of the soil, introduction of new 
plants and domestic animals, and the like. The other problem 
deals with the inferences that may be drawn from the present dis- 
tribution of plants and animals, in respect to the configuration of 
the surface of the earth in ancient times. Thus we see that the 
mutual relation of the objects of the different sciences is the sub- 
` ject of a science in itself, so that logy geography may be 
defined as the study of local correlatio 
“ Geography thus defined does not ‘nay in any degree to super- 
sede the Special cultivation of the separate sciences, but rather to 
intensify the interest already felt in each of them, by Spare gest 
connections which would otherwise be unobserved. It is 
geography alone that physical, historical and political pe Rae 
are seen to be linked closely together; and it is thus that geog- 
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