156 The American Geologist. March. 1904. 
Although such a footprint cannot be placed in any of the 
present genera as they are defined b}- Hitchcock, it is very 
probable that it represents an animal of the type of Euhrontes 
dananus E. Hitch, (Brontosoum sillimanium E. Hitch.). How- 
ever, in perfect specimens of that species in the same sort of 
matrix where a distinct outline is shown, there are no such 
traces of a web. There are slight expansions, but they are of 
a different nature. The measurements and number of joints 
are very similar, but so they are in Pleisiornis inirabilis of 
Hitchcock Vv^hich is nearer E. dananus than the present form 
under discussion. The joints of the phalanges, the turning 
aside of the claws, and the general skeletal shape would put 
the animal which made the present track in group H. of Hitch- 
cock, p. 63 — although they were doubtless Dinosaurs and not 
"thick-toed birds/' as he terms them. 
Boston Society of Natural History, November, 1903. 
GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES.* 
By W. M. Davis, Cambridge, Mass. 
For twenty years past our section has acknowledged in 
its name an equal rank for Geology and Geography, but not 
one of the vice-presidential addresses during that period, or 
indeed since the foundation of the Association over fifty years 
ago, has been concerned with the subject second named. 
Unless we cross off geography from the list of our responsi- 
bilities, it should certainly receive at least occasional atten- 
tion; let me therefore depart from all precedents, and, even 
though geologists may form the majority in this gathering, 
consider the standing of geography among the sciences of 
the United States : how it has reached the place it now occu- 
pies, and what the prospects are for its further advance. 
One measure of the place that geography occupies in this 
country may be made by considering- the share that geo- 
graphical problems have had in the proceedings of our Asso- 
ciation : here follow, therefore, the results of a brief examina- 
tion of our fifty volumes of record. In the early years of 
* Address Of W. M. Davis, Vice-President and Chairman of Section E for 
1903, American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, Mo., 
Dec, 1903. 
