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AS in other sections, an absence of sensational papers, and an unusual abundance of good solid work, the outcome of study and research, were the characteristic features in Section E. The president's address was well adapted to his audience; the simplicity of its language, and the vivid descriptions of scenes in the Arctic Basin, with which it abounded, sustained the attention of every listener, and went over the head of none. Perhaps it was better calculated for the extension than the advancement of geographical science, but in many ways advance in geography depends on conditions different from those which determine advance in other sciences. Mr Seebohm rightly felt that to enforce principles familiar to professed geographers by a picturesque concrete example which no one could misunderstand was better than to record advances in specialised research, which could only appeal to the few geographers whose grasp of the subject equalled his own.
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NATURE, vol. xlvi. p. 224, 1892, and vol. xlvii. p. 81, 1892.
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Geography at the British Association. Nature 48, 554–556 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048554a0
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