20 A.NNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT OF THE STURGIS HOOPER PROFESSOR 



OF GEOLOGY. 



By W. M. Davis. 



During the past academic year, my teaching included a half 

 course on the Physiography of Europe, for undergraduates and 

 graduates, in the second half year, and an advanced course of 

 research in Physiography, primarily for graduates, running 

 through the year. Both courses were attended by a disappoint- 

 ingly small number of students. 



My personal work was directed almost wholly to the revision 

 of the lectures on the Explanatory description of land forms, given 

 in the University of Berlin in the winter of 1908-1909, and in 

 the preparation of a large number of drawings for their illustration, 

 with the intention of publishing them in Germany. This work 

 was undertaken with the idea of extending in time and place what- 

 ever impression of American geographical methods the lectures 

 themselves may have produced. An interruption was caused by 

 the preparation and delivery of a course of lectures in the Lowell 

 Institute, Boston, in January, on the " Greater lessons of 

 geology." 



An intercollegiate geological and geographical excursion was 

 organized under my direction for the April recess to Catskill, 

 X. Y., a ground familiar from many earlier spring and summer 

 excursion^ some years ago. It was attended by some thirty 

 persons, including teachers and students from the Institute of 

 Technology, Yale, Columbia, St. Lawrence, and Rutgers, as well 

 as Harvard. During July I conducted a small party in a summer 

 course of physiographic field work in the Rocky mountains of 

 Colorado, where we found many features of interest, a report on 

 which is in preparation. A series of "Notes on the description 

 of land forms" has been begun for publication in the Bulletin 

 of the American Geographical Society, with a view of calling 

 attention particularly to the methods employed in such descrip- 

 tions, as well as to the facts described. 



