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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



students. The Christmas holidays were spent on the Italian 

 Riviera, where studies of coast forms were continued from the 

 beginning made in the previous summer. The last week of the 

 semester was given to an excursion, in which some twenty members 

 took part, including teachers from the Universities of Berlin, Gottin- 

 gen, Heidelberg, Greifswald, and Utrecht, and during which visits 

 were made to the Mesozoic escarpment near Sondershausen, the 

 valley of the Werra and the neighboring lava-capped table-moun- 

 tain known as the Meissner, the Gottingerwald, and the synclinal 

 hill-group near Alfeld. 



During the homeward journey a short stay was made in London, 

 where I spoke before the research section of the Royal Geographical 

 Society on the Systematic description of land forms, and before 

 the Geological Society on Glacial erosion in the Snowdon District. 

 My arrival in Cambridge, April 15, was too late in the second half 

 year for me to take much part in systematic instruction. Since 

 then my chief work has been the revision of the Berlin lectures on 

 Land forms, with a view to their publication during the coming 

 year. 



In connection with a business trip to Montana in the summer, 

 I took opportunity of making a twelve-day excursion to south- 

 eastern Alaska; and although observations of the mountainous 

 coast were made only from the deck of the passing steamer they 

 served well in giving an idea of the prevalent land forms, especially 

 with regard to the amount of glacial erosion that they have suffered. 



Publications. August 1, 1908-July 31, 1909. 



Der grosse canyon des Colorado. Verhandl. gesellsch. deutsch. 



naturf. u. Aerzte, 1908, [1909], vol. 80, p. 157-169. Zeitschr. 



gesellsch. fur erdkunde zu Berlin, 1909, p. 164-172. 

 The prairies of North America. Intern, wochenschr., 8, 15 August, 



1908, vol. 2, p. 1011-1018; 1045-1050. 



Die methoden der Amerikanischen geographischen forschung. Intern. 



wocJiensehr., 14 November, 1908, vol. 2, p. 1451-1458. Berliner 



akad. nachrichten, 1908, vol. 3. 

 The Rocky mountains. Intern, wochenschr., 3 April, 1909, vol. 3, 



p. 425-439. 



The Colorado canyon — some of its lessons. Geogr. journ., May, 



1909, vol. 33, p. 535-539. Bull. Amer. geogr. soc, June, 1909, 

 vol. 41, p. 345-354. 



