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and has a descriptive paper in process of publication. He also 
presented a paper before the joint meeting of the American Geo- 
graphical Society and the Association of American Geographers 
on the Physiography of the San Juan Mountains. Professor 
Atwood has taken a supervisional charge for the University over 
the college work in Geography which is being offered at the Boston 
Normal College, and, with Mr. Sayles, has become associated with 
the establishment of the Children’s Museum of Boston. 
Several hundred new topographic maps have been added to the 
equipment, and about 30 small selected groups of such maps have 
been mounted together for laboratory work. 
In the development of physiographic and geographic geology 
in the University it is highly desirable that a great deal of field 
work be done. The study of the local region is being worked more 
and more into the courses of instruction, but it is evident that a 
field school of geology and geography, conducted throughout the 
summer months, should be established and conducted on such a 
scale that the men could receive at least two months’ instruction 
in the field, and could there be trained for practical or professional 
work in these subjects. This field school should be to this Depart- 
ment what the engineering camp is to the department of engineer- 
ing. Such a school needs an endowment and certain scholarships 
to help deserving students to defray the necessarily heavy travel- 
ling expenses. 
‘Professor Atwood believes: that the engagement of graduate 
students, or, as it sometimes must be, undergraduate students as 
assistants in the courses of instruction is not altogether satisfac- 
tory. A young man well trained in the work of the department 
and appointed to a position as assistant or instructor for a term 
_ of two or three years would prove much more satisfactory, and 
_ would raise the efficiency in the instruction at very little increase 
_ in expense. 
Professor Graton gave the following courses:— Geology 10, on 
ore deposits (15 students); Geology 20b, research on ore deposits 
_ (3 students, recorded as 8 full courses); Geology 18, on fuels, 
- fluxes, etc., (assigned part of instruction, 4 students). He contin- 
ued to act as secretary and manager of the Copper Producers’ 
_ Association of New York, as director of the investigation on the 
_ secondary enrichment of ores (described in the last report), and 
as administrator of a research allotment from the funds of the 
_ Carnegie Institution of Washington. His field-work was carried on 
between August 1 and September 4, 1913, at Butte, Montana, and 
