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THE work, extending over the past two years, of various preliminary committees was brought to a conclusion on January 3 when the Institute of British Geographers held its first meeting and elected a council and officers. The initial membership is open to all present members of the staffs of university departments of geography in Britain; in the future, membership will be by election. With one possible exception, all universities, as well as a large number of colleges of university rank, in Great Britain have now departments of geography and there is thus an obvious need for co-ordinating the teaching and research work of their staffs and for permitting an exchange of views on matters of particular interest in the furtherance of the subject in the universities. The Institute is thus in no way a rival to existing bodies. In discussing problems of special interest to themselves, it is clearly not the desire of university geographers to lose the contact which they have with administrators, travellers and surveyors, amongst others, who provide so much of their material, through the Royal Geographical Society; or with the teachers who have charge of the school training of the rising generation, through the Geographical Association. At the first meeting, papers were read, on “Soils”, by Mr. A. Stevens (Glasgow), on the geography of the Arab Empire in Europe, by Mr. W. G. East (London), and on a comparison between the iron industries of Northamptonshire and Lorraine, by Mr. S. H. Beaver (London). The council and officers elected are: President: Prof. C. B. Fawcett (University College, London); Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: Mr. A. A. Miller (Reading); Hon. Assistant Secretary: Dr. H. A. Matthews (Birkbeck College, London); Council: Mr. J. N. L. Baker (Oxford); Dr. R. O. Buchanan (University College, London); Prof. H. J. Fleure (Manchester); Prof. Ll. Rodwell Jones (London School of Economics); Prof. P. M. Roxby (Liverpool) and Dr. S. W. Wooldridge (Kings College, London).
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Institute of British Geographers. Nature 131, 51 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131051c0
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