ProceedingsU.S. National Committee of the International Geographical Union, National Academy of Scieces--National Research Council, 1905 - Geography Proceedings for 1952- include the Proceedings of the 8th- General Assembly of the International Geographical Union. |
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Page 552 - They will presuppose the use of good textbooks, collateral reading, and practice in written work. Geographical knowledge will be tested by requiring the location of places and movements on an outline map. The report of the committee of seven, which appeared in the Proceedings of the American Historical Association for 1898, was published separately under the title "Study of History in Schools" by The Macmillan Company in 1899.
Page 196 - This disclosure was made in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, dated March 20, 1800.
Page 99 - The ordinary processes by which words change their meanings are, then, essentially the same as the devices of poetry ; or, to express the fact more accurately, the figurative language of poetry differs from the speech of common life mainly in employing fresher figures, or in revivifying those which have lost their freshness from age and constant use. Language is fossil poetry which is constantly being worked over for the uses of speech. Our commonest words are worn-out metaphors.
Page 80 - SUMMARY. From a physiographic standpoint the Canadian shield can be described as an ancient peneplain which has undergone differential elevation ; has been denuded, and subsequently slightly incised around the uplifted margin.
Page 510 - Indian — a system, which, if followed out as it should have been, would have led the Indian to his new destiny by easy stages and would have averted the long and bloody wars, the corruption and bad faith, which have gained for a hundred years of our dealings with the Indians the unenviable distinction of a Century of Dishonor.
Page 57 - The Eighth International Geographic Congress, realizing that the only untouched fields for geographical discovery are the regions immediately surrounding the poles of the earth, desires to place on record its sense of the importance of forthwith completing the systematic exploration of the polar areas.
Page 483 - ... colored population. In British Guiana this coastal characteristic is more pointedly brought to attention, because nearly all the exports of this large colony are grown on a strip of alluvium diked and reclaimed from the sea after the manner of Holland. Furthermore, the coast settlements and cities from Rio de Janeiro to Guiana are largely populated by negroes or mulattoes, or, as in Guiana, by imported East Indian coolies. The location of cities in tropical America shows forcibly the importance...
Page 446 - The area of this mountain is far inland, in the heart of a most difficult and trackless country, making the transportation of men and supplies a very arduous task. The thick underbrush, the endless marshes, and the myriads of vicious mosquitoes bring to the traveller the troubles of the tropics. The necessity...
Page 315 - ... now remains for me to speak of it as it is when transfigured in song. The organ is the same in both cases, but in song it is used strictly as a musical instrument — one, too, of far more complex structure than any fashioned by the hand of man. The mechanism of voice has already been described, but, for the sake of clearness, it may be well to recall the three essential elements in its production : 1, the air blast, or motive power ; 2, the vibrating reed, or tone-producing apparatus ; 3, the...
Page 96 - ... be safely taken, namely, the combination in a single cycle, uninterrupted by land movements, of a succession of normal and special agencies. Thus we come to the important complication of climatic changes. Normal and Accidental Climatic Changes. The normal ideal cycle postulates no climatic change except such as accompanies the decrease of surface temperatures and the increase of precipitation caused by the initial (relatively) rapid uplift, and the gradual rise of surface temperatures and decrease...