Geographical Education

Abstract

THE Council of the Royal Geographical Society have been making a determined effort during the past eighteen months to improve the position of geography in the education of this country, with special reference to the higher schools and universities. They have collected information as to the position of the subject and the methods used in teaching it in the schools and universities of the leading Continental countries as well as in England, and published the results in the form of a Report, which has attracted considerable attention, and is likely to lead to useful results. In connection with this inquiry the Society has arranged an Exhibition of Appliances in use in Geographical Education at the rooms, 53, Great Marlborough Street, which, since it was opened in the beginning of December, has attracted many visitors of the class for whose special benefit it was intended. Already there are signs that this Exhibition will do real good in at least leading to the multiplication and improvement of the meagre appliances in use in English schools. Nothing could show more strikingly the marked difference in the variety and quality of these appliances in use in English and in Continental schools.