MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 17 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND 



GEOGRAPHY. 



By Reginald A. Daly. 



The staff of this Department has been greatly strengthened by 

 new appointments during the year 1912-1913. Prof. Wallace 

 Walter Atwood of Chicago University and Secretary of the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences, has been appointed Professor of Physiog- 

 raphy. He is an able, inspiring teacher and his numerous pub- 

 lications show a very high order of capacity on the research side 

 of his special field. His experience has been unusually broad, 

 extending over the geographical sciences, glacial geology, general 

 dynamical geology, and certain phases of economic geology. Pro- 

 fessor Atwood's appointment means a rapid development of the 

 geographical activities of the Department, which were established 

 under the masterly leadership of Professor Davis. 



The appointment of Prof. Alexander George McAdie as Pro- 

 fessor of Meteorology and Director of the Blue Hill Meterological 

 Observatory is noted in a following paragraph, in connection with 

 the statement of the new, closer relation of the Observatory to this 

 Department. 



On February 15 Prof. Louis Caryl Graton first assumed his 

 duties as Professor of Mining Geology in this Department. He 

 has already shown his great value to the Department by organizing 

 a laboratory for instruction and research in his field. Through 

 his own prestige with mining corporations he has secured a large 

 fund for a special, highly important investigation which is now 

 under way. The results already accomplished show that the 

 expectations raised by his appointment are amply justified. 



Mr. Edward J. Whittaker was appointed assistant in Geology 

 but resigned to take a position in the Geological Survey of Canada. 

 Mr. Ignacio Bonillas was appointed in his place. 



Owing largely to the lack of an instructor in the geographical 

 courses the number of takings in this Department was, this year, 

 only 232 (distributed through 15 courses and half courses of instruc- 

 tion) as against 268 takings last year. Three half courses in 

 Radcliffe College were attended by 24 students, as against 23 

 students last year. 



