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GEOGRAPHY AT THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
H. VIGRASS. 
The heavy programme was worked with extraordinary 
smoothness by the Chairman, Dr. Marion Newbegin, and the 
Recorder, Dr. Rudmose Brown. Fourteen papers were 
illustrated by slides, and the able manipulation of the lantern 
by Mr. Ward added appreciably to the success of the papers. 
The section was accommodated in an unusually fine room at 
the Municipal Art School, which gave ample seating room 
and abundant space for the exhibition of Mr. T. Sheppard's 
unique collection of maps of Hull and the Humber Estuary, 
and of a series of diagrams forming the initial stage of a 
regional survey of the East Riding undertaken by members 
of various local scientific societies. 
The list of papers read was as given below : — 
1. Miss E. C. Semple, ‘ The Influence of Geographic Conditions 
upon Ancient Mediterranean Agriculture.’ 
2. Mrs. H. Ormsby, ‘ The Danube as a Waterway.’ 
3. Presidential Address (Dr. Marion I. Newbegin) on ‘ Human 
Geography : First Principles and some Applications.’ 
4. Sir Philip Brocklehurst, ‘ Through Wadai.’ 
5. Prof. J. F. Unstead, ‘ The Belt of Political Change in Europe.’ 
6. Mr. LI. Rodwell Jones, ‘The Port of Hull — -a Geographical Study 
of Port Development.’ 
7. Mr. C. Midgley, ‘ Holderness — Some Aspects of Water Supply as 
a Geographical Factor.’ 
8 . Mr. H. M. Spink, ‘ Some Geographical Aspects of Recent Develop- 
ments of Water-power.’ 
p. Mr. A. V. Williamson, ‘ Irrigation in the Indo-Gangetic Alluvium.’ 
10. Mr. D. T. C. Mekie, ‘ The Trend of World Commerce.’ 
11. Dr. T. Ashley, ‘ Early Maps of Malta.’ 
12. Mr. R. A. Frazer, ‘ Topographical Work in Spitzbergen.’ 
13. Mr. F. Debenham, O.B.E., ‘ Survey in Polar Regions.’ 
14. Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, O.B.E., ‘ The Mapping of Latin America.’ 
15. Discussion on ‘ The Use of Mercator’s Projection for Air-maps.’ 
Opened by Col. E. M. Jack, C.M.G., D.S.O. 
16. Prof. P. M. Roxby, ‘ Peking : its Place in the Life of Modern 
China . ’ 
17. Joint Discussion with Sections C and H on ‘ The Relation of Early 
Man to Phases of the Ice Age in Britain.’ 
18. Dr. Vaughan Cornish, ‘ The Isothermal Frontier of Ancient 
Cities.’ 
19. Mr. R. R. Walls, ‘Portuguese Nyassaland — its Geographical 
Problems .’ 
20. Miss H. A. Wilcox, ‘ A Scheme for the Preparation of a Map of 
the Early Woodlands of Britain.’ 
21. Joint Discussion with Section A on ‘Monsoons.’ Opened by 
Dr. G. C. Simpson, C.B.E., F.R.S. 
The President's Address was, in her own words, ‘not so 
much a contribution to geographical science, as a plea for a 
deliberate attempt on the part of Geographers to make clear 
to the ordinary citizen that geography, in its modern aspects, 
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