Memorial Volume of the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 of the American Geographical Society of New York

Abstract

THE excursion of which this volume is a memoriai was organised by Prof. W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, to celebrate two things—the sixtieth anniversary of the foundation of the American Geographical Society of New York, and the entry of that society into its new huiiding in Broadway at 156th Street. The members of the excursion were mainly geographers invited from neariy every European country, and these were taken in a speciai train and by other means of communication over routes amounting in ali to nearly 13,000 miies, flrst westwards through the northern tier of States to Seattie, thence south to San Frarcisco, and back through the middie States, but going so far south as Birmingham, Ala., in rounding the south of the Appaiachians. Besides the European members of the party, there were about a dozen American geographers who went the whole round; and numerous other American geographers, geologists, and others capabie of furnishing information about different parts of the United States joined the party for shorter or longer stages.

Memorial Volume of the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 of the American Geographical Society of New York.

Pp. xi + 407. (New York: American Geographical Society, 1915.) Price 3 dollars.