MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 29 



REPORT ON COURSES IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



By Professor W. M. Davis. 



The courses of instruction in charge of Professor Davis have 

 been carried on in much the same manner as in previous years. 

 In Elementary Physical Geography, Mr. L. S. Griswold has acted 

 as Assistant, while in Elementary Meteorology this duty has been 

 performed by Mr. R. DeC. Ward. A new half-course in the 

 second half-year on the Physical Geography of the United States 

 was offered for the first time : it was given by lectures in the 

 Geographical Laboratory, where maps and photographs could be 

 conveniently displayed. The chief subjects discussed in the ad- 

 vanced course in Physical Geography were the features of shore 

 lines, and their use as criteria of uplift and depression, this being 

 the subject of the thesis in preparation by Mr. Gulliver ; the physi- 

 cal features of Missouri, in which Mr. Marbut of the Missouri 

 Geological Survey introduced a number of original observations ; 

 the Physical Geography of New York State, by Mr. Kennedy ; the 

 Alleghany Plateau, by Mr. Abbe ; and the Physical Geography of 

 Utah, by Mr. Tanner. In the advanced course in Meteorology, 

 Mr. Schoenfeld made what may be called a meteorological section 

 of Africa from north to south, from which it appears clear that the 

 southwest monsoon of the northern summer is well developed in 

 the interior of the continent for a number of degrees north of the 

 equator. 



The chief addition to the collection of laboratory materials has 

 been a number of grouped sheets of the Topographical Map 

 of the United States ; these proved to be invaluable in the course 

 on the Physical Geography of our country. The laboratory has 

 lately been uncomfortably crowded by the necessity of storing 

 there a number of maps and models that have been previously 

 kept in the Geological Exhibition Room, on the floor below. There 

 is at present no adequate provision for the exhibition of these 

 excellent geographical illustrations. 



