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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 

 AND GEOGRAPHY. 



By Reginald A. Daly. 



This year the Department was fortunate in having the collabora- 

 tion of two visiting professors. During the first half-year, Prof. 

 W. S. Tower of the University of Chicago conducted course 3, 

 on the geography of South America, and course 11, on economic 

 geography. The demand for these new courses and the success 

 with which they were administered prove the advisability of 

 securing regular instruction in the same subjects. The payment 

 for Professor Tower's services was secured in part from the Latin 

 American Fund and in part by subscriptions from members of 

 the Visiting Committee. 



During the second half-year, Prof. Raoul Blanchard of the 

 University of Grenoble, as exchange professor from France gave, 

 in French, a course (Geography 4) on the geography of the Alps 

 and of certain French cities. His brilliant instruction and the 

 sound philosophy underlying it, like the admirable influence of 

 Professor Tower on our advanced students, made specially vivid 

 the need of at least one professorship of human geography. 



During the first half-year, Professor Smyth was on leave of 

 absence. The assistants appointed for the year were: — Messrs. 

 T. H. Clark, J. W. Eggleston, R. M. Field, I). A. Hall, D. H. 

 McLaughlin, M. Noble, Roderick Peattie, Thorndike Saville, 

 W. J. R. Taylor, and B. M. Varney. On January 1st, to the 

 great regret of the Department, Mr. G. M. Flint resigned as pre- 

 parator, having long served with quite unusual efficiency. The 

 position is now filled by Mr. R. C. Ray, who has, in turn, won the 

 full confidence of the staff. Miss D. L^pham's services were of 

 great value in expediting correspondence and stencilling and in 

 the care of the Gardner Collection of lantern slides. 



The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that under specified 

 conditions, advanced geological courses, taken at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, may be counted toward the Harvard 

 degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. This vote advances the cooperation 



