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GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS! 
GroGRAPHICAL News.—A meeting of representatives of all the 
German geographical societies, was held at the rooms of the Ber- 
lin Society, on the 7th and 8th of June last. Dr. Nachtigal, 
President of the latter society, was in the chair. In his opening 
speech Dr. Nachtigal gave some account of the efforts made to 
form a union of the various geographical societies of the Empire. 
They include now about 4000 members. A plan of cooperation 
under the control of an executive body at Berlin, and including the 
publication of a journal, had been proposed, but met with too much 
opposition, and was therefore abandoned. Annual meetings for the 
reading of papers and discussions, was all that could be decided 
upon at present. At this meeting papers were presented, I. On the 
Ways and Means of investigating the condition of the Earth's Cen- 
ter, by Professor Zoppritz [Professor of Geography at the Univer- 
sity of Kénigsberg]; 2. On the Bermudas and their Coral Reefs, 
by Professor Rein [Professor of Geography at the University of 
arburg], founded on observations made by the author during a 
two years’ residence on the islands; 3 On the importance of 
Magnetic Researches, from the point of view of geography and 
the study of the earth generally, by Dr. Neumayer [Director of 
Houses viewed geographically and_ historically, by Professor 
Meitzen [Professor of Statistics at the University of Berlin]; 6. 
a combination of geographical with historical instruction led to — 
the injury and neglect of all school teaching; that even if geog- 
raphy is viewed as the only subject which connects physical sct- 
ence and mathematics with history, it should be joined wit 
physical science in the instruction of the upper classes of schools; 
and lastly, that geography in the Government examinations of 
teachers, should be admitted as a separate science, and also as an 
accessory subject assisting to an important degree various coe 
branches of learning.” Professor Wagner, of Gottingen, advo- 
cated the sketching of maps, and especially the rapid delineation 
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