MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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REPORT OF THE STURGIS HOOPER PROFESSOR OF 



GEOLOGY. 



By William M. Davis. 



Following close upon the geographical excursion in northern 

 Italy and southeastern France, as reported last year, came the 

 service as visiting professor at the University of Berlin for the 

 winter semester (November-March), 1908-'09; but between these 

 larger obligations there were several smaller duties, namely, attend- 

 ance at the International Geographical Congress, held at Geneva, 

 where I served as presiding officer in the section on education; 

 participation in the Oxford Summer School of Geography, where 

 several lectures on the eastern United States were given; guidance 

 of an excursion in the Snowdon district of North Wales, in which 

 several members of the Oxford Summer School took part; attend- 

 ance at the meeting of the British Association in Dublin, where I 

 gave an evening lecture on the Colorado canyon, illustrated with 

 lantern slides from our Gardner collection of photographs; and 

 at the meeting of German Naturalists and Physicians in Cologne, 

 where the same lecture was repeated in German. It may be noted 

 that this lecture seemed to be attractive to European audiences as, 

 in addition to its delivery in Dublin and Cologne, it was given in 

 German before the geographical societies of Berlin, Leipzig, and 

 Greifswald, and in English before those of London and Edinburgh; 

 and that on account of the pressure of other work it was necessary 

 to decline invitations that would have resulted in delivering the 

 lecture in Vienna, Stuttgart, Halle, Kiel, Stockholm, Cambridge, 

 Oxford, and Glasgow. 



The month of October was spent in Marburg, writing lectures 

 to be delivered in the winter. Berlin was reached at the end of 

 October, and work at the University entered upon as follows: — 

 Two courses of lectures were given, one on the Systematic descrip- 

 tion of land forms (in German), two hours a week; one on the 

 Physical features of the United States (in English), two hours a 

 week; the Geographical Colloquium was, in the absence of Geheim- 

 rat Penck, placed in my charge and occupied by reports from 

 students and discussions; and in addition to these regular appoint- 

 ments there were many hours given to informal conferences with 



