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Deploring the fact that geography was one of the least adequately- 

 treated of the subjects of the time-table, the lecturer pointed out 

 that there is now a decided stimulus to independent deliberation 

 upon questions of method and anxious experiment to discover the 

 best direction in which further advance should be sought. Rousseau 

 insisted that the beginnings of geography should be in observation 

 lessons and the study of the home district, and the exponents of 

 modern geography require observation and influence as the basis of 

 all geographical study. The programme compiled for the use of the 

 boys who made the tour, indicated the amount of geographical study 

 of the higest educational value which a school journey could provide, 

 and the boys' notebooks showed how thoroughly the work had been 

 done. Each day and every day there was observation and inference, 

 comparison and contrast. In concluding, the lecturer said that if 

 educational excursions are to become at all general, education 

 authorities must be prepared to allow them to be taken in school 

 time even if they felt bound to leave the raising of funds to 

 voluntary effort. 



. On May 28th, 1910, there was a joint Archaeological, 



Excursions. Botanical and Geographical Excursion to Sopley 

 and Godwinscroft, which was conducted by G. Brownen, Esq. On 

 September 10th, 1910, the Botanical and Geographical Sections 

 united in an excursion to Wareham under the charge of Miss Agnes 

 C. Rooper. 



Chairman : Dr. William T. Ord, f.g.s. 



The winter work of this section was opened on 

 T ne December 2nd, 1909, by an important paper by 



Glacial Period Dr. Colley March, f.s.a. (Vice-President of the 

 in Dorset. Dorset Field Club), entitled 1 ' Dorset during the 



Glacial Period," which is presented in full on page 71. The views 

 advocated therein being somewhat in advance of those held by the 

 leading authorities, and there having been no time for a discussion 

 on the subject, the matter was postponed until the next monthly 

 meeting of the section on January 13th. The Chairman, Dr. Ord, 

 then opened the subject by reading a paper entitled "What evidence 

 have we of Ice-action in Dorset ? " This paper is presented on 

 page 86. A brief discussion followed the reading of this paper, in 

 which Dr. March, Mr. H. St. Barbe, of Lymington, and Dr. 

 Moorhead took part. Mr. St. Barbe said that very similar con- 

 ditions prevailed in Hampshire as in Dorset, and that although he 

 had studied the surface of that county for some years, he had never 

 found traces of ice-action. Photographs of flints which according to 

 Dr. March's hypothesis may have been scratched by ice-action are 



