16 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



this course, and if the completion of a publishable essay, credit- 

 able alike to the student and to the Department, were made a 

 requirement. 



In association with the advanced course on Physiography, I 

 held many conferences with Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, who as 

 Hooper Fellow was writing an account of his recent travels in 

 central Asia, and discussing the records of subrecent changes of 

 climate and their effect on human history. 



Two afternoon lectures were given on the preparation of geolog- 

 ical diagrams, as a contribution to instruction in technique, with 

 which most of our students have insufficient acquaintance. 



During the absence of Prof. J. H. Wright, Dean of the Graduate 

 School of Arts and Sciences, I served as Acting Dean. 



The New England Intercollegiate Geological Excursion being 

 now well established as an annual autumnal field reunion of pro- 

 fessors and advanced students of geology in our schools and col- 

 leges^ similar reunion of teachers and students of geography was 

 initiated in the spring, as a means of bringing about further im- 

 provements in geographical teaching. A day's meeting, with 

 morning and afternoon sessions, was held in Cambridge, with the 

 decision to meet again in coming years. 



Much time was given in the spring and summer to the prepara- 

 tion of a series of practical exercises in physical geography, for 

 use in schools. There has been increasing need of such exercises 

 for a number of years past, in order to give a more disciplinary 

 quality to the study ; a quality which it sadly lacks to-day, if one 

 may judge by the very disappointing results of our admission ex- 

 aminations in physiography. A serious difficulty was encountered 

 in the preparation of the ideal diagrams of typical land forms, on 

 which a number of the exercises are based. No professional artist 

 could be found who combined a sufficient knowledge of the sub- 

 ject with a trained delicacy of handiwork, and as a result I have 

 had to prepare all the drawings myself, with what success remains 

 to be seen. 



Publications. August 1, 1906-July 31, 1907. 



The mountains of southernmost Africa. Bull. Amer. geogr. soc, 



October, 1906, vol. 38, p. 593-623. 

 The physical factor in general geograph}'. Educational bimonthly, 



1906, vol. 1, p. 112-123. 



