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THE thirtieth annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers was held on December 26–28, at North-western University, Evanston, Illinois. In the three day session fifty-seven papers were presented, including thirteen in the field of geo-morphology, ten more in regional geography and six in urban geography. The remainder represented a diversity of subjects. The afternoon of December 26 was devoted to the general subject of “Conventionalizing Geographic Investigation and Presentation”. The papers on this subject were presented by Profs. P. E, James of the University of Michigan, Wellington D. Jones of the University of Chicago and V. C. Finch of the University of Wisconsin. A feature of the meeting was an address by Dr. L. Dudley Stamp, an invited guest of the Association, who spoke on “One Hundred Years of Change in Land Utilisation in the British Isles—the Work of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain”. The retiring president, Frangois E. Matthes of the United States Geological Survey, gave the annual address. He spoke on “Our Greatest Mountain Range, the Sierra Nevada of California”. The following officers were elected for 1934: President, Dr. W. W. Atwood, president of Clark University; Vice-President, Prof. V. C. Finch, chairman of the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin; Secretary, Prof. F. E. Williams, University of Pennsylvania; Treasurer, Prof. R. S. Platt, University of Chicago.
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Association of American Geographers. Nature 133, 135 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133135a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133135a0