MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 13 



EEPORT OF THE STURGIS-HOOPER PROFESSOR OF 



GEOLOGY. 



By William M. Davis. 



Professor Davis has given two courses during the past year : 

 the advanced course in Physiography (Geol. 20) and the half- 

 course on the Physiography of Europe. The topics studied in the 

 former included : River terraces, the historical development of 

 the study of shore lines and of rivers, and the methods of treating 

 systematic geography and regional geography. The manuscript 

 of an article on u River Terraces in New England " has been com- 

 pleted for publication in the " Bulletin" of the Museum, and an ab- 

 stract of it has appeared in the " American Journal of Science." 

 Essays have been prepared on u Systematic Geography " for the 

 general meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Phila- 

 delphia, in April last, and on " Progress in Teaching Geography " 

 for the National Society for the Scientific Study of Education. 



A broader opportunity for field work for advanced students has 

 been felt to be so important that a fund was secured by the aid of 

 some friends of the Department of Geology and Geography, suffi- 

 cient to take two students, Mr. E. Huntington, graduate, and Mr. 

 J. W. Goldthwait, '02, on an excursion to Utah and Arizona, where 

 a special study was made of a region adjacent to the great Hurri- 

 cane Fault. Advantage was taken of this excursion by Professor 

 Davis to review some of his previous observations in the Grand 

 Canyon region, to examine some of the fresh-water Tertiary for- 

 mations of the Rocky Mountain region, and to visit some of the 

 young block mountains of southern Oregon. Reports on these 

 excursions are in preparation. 



Publications by the Sturgis- Hooper Professor. 



Elementary Physical Geography. Ginn & Co., Boston, 1902. 

 Baselevel, Grade and Peneplain. Journ. Geol., X. 1902, 77-111. 

 Les enseignnients du Grand Canyon du Colorado. La Geographic, IV. 

 1901, 339-351. 



