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The visit to Europe made by Professor Davis in the summer of 

 1894 supplied a number of photographs, taken by himself, and since 

 then reproduced in lantern slides ; those illustrating certain details 

 in the process of the migration of river divides along the margin of 

 the Swabian Alp in Wiirtemberg being especially useful. The 

 same visit served as the basis of two studies on the natural history 

 of rivers : one on certain rivers in England, mentioned in the list 

 of publications given below ; the other on the Seine, the Meuse, 

 and the Moselle, shortly to be published in the "Annales de G6- 

 ographie " of Paris, and in the " National Geographic Magazine " 

 of Washington. The latter subject served also as the title of a 

 lecture before the National Geographic Society in February last. 



Following a plan laid in the spring of 1894, a course of informal 

 lectures on " Meteorology in the Schools" was given by Professor 

 Davis and Mr. Ward, to an audience of about thirty teachers se- 

 lected from the Cambridge Grammar Schools. This course was 

 originated by a committeee of the New England Meteorological 

 Society, in order to promote instruction in Elementary Meteo- 

 rology. The course was repeated by Mr. Ward to the teachers of 

 Hingham, Mass. Good results are believed to have followed these 

 efforts. A considerable measure of time was given during the 

 winter by Professor Davis to supervision of the physical element 

 in Frye's " Complete Geography," lately published by Ginn & Co. ; 

 the share of attention allowed to Physical Geography being much 

 greater than is commonly the case in grammar school text-books. 



For the first time in several years, Professor Davis took part in 

 the summer courses of instruction, offering the subject of Physical 

 Geography. Although the class numbered only nine, two women 

 and seven men, the spirit of the work was encouraging in the 

 highest degree. Lectures were given daily in the laboratory, fol- 

 lowed by various practical exercises on maps, models, books, etc. 

 Excursions were made to Nantasket, Newtonville, Provincetown, 

 and the Connecticut and Deerfield valleys, giving good opportu- 

 tunity for the study of a variety of geographical forms in the field. 

 A brief interruption was made during the progress of the course, 

 in order that the instructor might give three lectures in the State 

 Summer School at Norwich, Connecticut. 



