Geography in the United States. I
W. M. Davis
1904
Science
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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. GlSOS-RAI'GY 1N THE UNITDD STATES.* I. FOR tswenty years past our section has acknowledged in its name an equal rank for geology and geography, but not onet of the vice-presidential addresses during that period, or, indeed, since the £oundation of the association over fifty years ago, has been concerned with the subject second named. Unless we cross ofZ! geography from the list of our responsibilities, it should certainly receive at least oceasiona] attention; let me, therefore, depart froln all precedents, and, even though geologists rrLay form the majority in this gathering, consider the standing of geography amon the scienees of the United States; how it has reached the place it now occupies, and what the prospects are for its further advanee. One measure of the place that geogra.phy occupies in this country may be made by considering the share that geographical problems have had in the proceedings oX our association; here follow, therefore, the results of a brief examination of our fifty volumes of records. In the early years of the association there was no fxed division into sections. The meetings were sometimes so small that papers from various seiences were presented in general session. At least once in the early years the work of our predecessors was recorded under the general heading, ' natural history, ete.' As early as in 1851 there was a section of X Address of the vice-president and chairman of Section E Geology and Geography-of the American Association for the Advancement of Scien¢e, St. Louis meeting, December, 1903. GlSOS-RAI'GY 1N THE UNITDD STATES.* I. FOR tswenty years past our section has acknowledged in its name an equal rank for geology and geography, but not onet of the vice-presidential addresses during that period, or, indeed, since the £oundation of the association over fifty years ago, has been concerned with the subject second named. Unless we cross ofZ! geography from the list of our responsibilities, it should certainly receive at least oceasiona] attention; let me, therefore, depart froln all precedents, and, even though geologists rrLay form the majority in this gathering, consider the standing of geography amon the scienees of the United States; how it has reached the place it now occupies, and what the prospects are for its further advanee. One measure of the place that geogra.phy occupies in this country may be made by considering the share that geographical problems have had in the proceedings oX our association; here follow, therefore, the results of a brief examination of our fifty volumes of records. In the early years of the association there was no fxed division into sections. The meetings were sometimes so small that papers from various seiences were presented in general session. At least once in the early years the work of our predecessors was recorded under the general heading, ' natural history, ete.' As early as in 1851 there was a section of X Address of the vice-president and chairman of Section E Geology and Geography-of the American Association for the Advancement of Scien¢e, St. Louis meeting, December, 1903.
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