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EDINBURGH.—The University, which as yet has no professor of geography and only one lecturer on the subject, as compared with three professors and five lecturers in branches of history, has recently so far recognised its growing importance as to institute a diploma in geography, based on regulations involving a thorough and far-reaching study of certain aspects of geographical science. The diploma is intended for graduates in arts or science prepared to devote an additional annus academicus to the subject, and capable of passing ah examination of somewhat high standard. The limited number of courses in pure geography available in the University under present conditions has made it necessary to have recourse oextensively to other departments, and the aim of the regulations appears to be to induce students to specialise either in historical and economic geography or, but less markedly, in mathematical geography. A special feature is the stress laid upon economic ethnography, defined as the study of the influence of geographical environment on the life of the most important peoples. The regulations give much less scope to graduates whose tastes lie in the direction of physical geography in the wide sense, and, in view of the contributions which Scotland has made to oceanography and meteorology, it is remarkable that neither of these subjects finds a place in the list.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 102, 237–238 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102237a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102237a0