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THESE lectures are published opportunely at a time when it is most desirable that the now almost general effort to further geographical education should be properly directed. They form a short course introductory to the work of the Lectureship on Geography now established in Cambridge, and in them General Strachey describes the aspects of the subject which he considers most suitable for the instruction of students at the University. He thus gives a complete summary of the aims and matter of scientific geography—of geography as a natural science related to other natural sciences, much as mathematics is to physical science. He assumes that students, before going to University, have acquired a general knowledge of geography; and, in passing, he points out that the primary object of the school teaching of geography is to impart an accurate knowledge of the main topographical features of the entire earth, all trivial details being omitted, and suitable instruction being given in the physical, economical, and historical characteristics of important places.
Lectures on Geography, delivered before the University of Cambridge, during the Lent Term, 1888.
By Lieut.-General Strachey, President of the Royal Geographical Society. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.)
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OGILVIE, F. [Book Reviews]. Nature 39, 388 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039388a0
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