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publisher to undertake the duplication of such models in larger 

 numbers and at low price. Eventually, it is desired to establish 

 a Museum of Systematic Geography, in which an extended series 

 of typical land forms shall be exhibited. 



During the past year, Professor Davis has completed his long 

 delayed Report on the Triassic Formation of Connecticut for the 

 United States Geological Survey, and has made good advance in 

 the preparation of a text book of Elementary Physiography. In 

 connection with his service on the Committee on Admission 

 Requirements, he has drawn up an Outline of Requirements in 

 Physiography for the use of secondary schools. In order to extend 

 the introduction of topographical maps in elementary teaching, he 

 has written pamphlets on the use of the State Map in grammar 

 schools, which have been published by the educational author- 

 ities in New York and Massachusetts, thus following the ex- 

 ample set by Connecticut and Rhode Island a year ago. He has 

 continued the editing of " Current Notes on Physiography " in 

 Science, and with Mr. Ward has joined the board of associate 

 editors of the Journal of School Geography, conducted by Pro- 

 fessor R. E. Dodge, of the Teachers' College, New York City. In 

 company with students, or alone, he has visited the Triassic re- 

 gion of Connecticut, the cuspate forelands of Narragansett Bay 

 and Nantucket, and the peculiar coastal plain of Southern Maine. 

 Late in June, he addressed the University Convocation at Albany, 

 N. Y., on the Present Trend of Geography, and early in July he 

 conducted a conference on Geography in the summer school con- 

 nected with the University of Pennsylvania. 



In the vacation, two courses on Geography were given by Pro- 

 fessor Davis in the Harvard Summer School : a first course, on 

 Elementary Physiography, in which he was assisted by Messrs. 

 W. H. Snyder, Master in Science, Worcester Academy, and M. W. 

 Wright, of the College class of '97 ; and a second course on the 

 Physiography of the United States, in which he was assisted by 

 Mr. J. M. Boutwell, '97. As in 1896, the time and effort given to 

 summer teaching are fully repaid by the interest thus aroused 

 among teachers in secondary schools. It is not too much to say 

 that a greater effect is now produced on educational methods in 

 geography through six weeks' work with actual teachers in the 

 summer school than through the whole college year with under- 

 graduates and graduates. 



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