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THE annual meetings of the Geographical Association were held in Birkbeck College, London, on Jan. 2-4. They were remarkable chiefly for evidences of new experiments in co-operation of varied character. Closer contact with the business world was sought through the conference on railway geography, presided over by Mr. R. Bell, Assistant General Manager, of the L.N.E. Railway, well known for his up-to-date educational policy. It may not be generally known that for some years this railway company has arranged for courses of instruction in geography to be given to railway men. The scheme has proved of sound business value, and it is to be hoped that other commercial firms in Britain will realise what commercial firms in America have long known, namely, the importance of a knowledge of geography in an up-to-date business education. Mr. Llewelyn Rodwell-Jones, lecturer in economic geography in the University of London, and Mr. C. B. Fawcett, reader in geography in the University of Leeds, each of whom has had experience in conducting classes for railway men, opened the discussion with very able papers. They dealt with the sort of geography which helps the railway man, and also with the help which railways and a study of them may be to the geographer. The interesting questions of the railway called into being by the town, and the towns, and especially the modern garden city, made possible by the railway, were discussed with concrete examples.
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Geographical Instruction and British Climate. Nature 113, 99–100 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113099a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113099a0