Advanced Text-Book of Physical Geography

Abstract

PHYSICAL Geography is one of those branches of knowledge which, without being a science in itself, makes use of many of the Sciences to explain and illustrate the facts and phenomena with which it deals. So far as it is confined to the mere knowledge of facts and description of natural phenomena, no special acquaintance with any science is required; but when it comes to deal with the causes of phenomena and the deductions from geographical facts, it is essential that the teacher should himself possess a good general knowledge of several branches of modern Science. In particular it is necessary that he should clearly grasp the main principles of Physics, that he should have a good acquaintance with the distribution of animals and plants, and so much familiarity with arithmetic and mathematics as to be able to avoid making statements which are palpably incorrect.

Advanced Text-Book of Physical Geography.

By David Page, Professor of Geology in the College of Physical Science, Newcastle. Second and Enlarged Ed. (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1873.)