The use of maps in teaching geography : a lecture delivered before the College of Preceptors, May 13, 1896 / by Professor Seeley.

  • Harry Govier Seeley
Date:
1896
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Credit: The use of maps in teaching geography : a lecture delivered before the College of Preceptors, May 13, 1896 / by Professor Seeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    possibility of combining them so that geography could rest upon geology, I have conducted the weekly excursions of the Field Class to accessible places in the London district where the relations of geography to geology could be practically seen. My method has been, during the past eleven years, to prepare as far as possible a geological map and a geographical map, so that both should be in the hands of each member of the class. The map is always limited to the immediate district which is seen, and a mile or two to the north and south, or east and west, as the case may be. These excursions have been planned to illustrate the nature and structure of river valleys and river Boulder C(au London Gay Geological map of Brentwood showing limits of the strata. The area of the Bagshot sand is shaded. gorges, escarpment valleys, escarpment ranges of hills, isolated hills, and the plains out of which these features have been carved by denudation. This kind of practical knowledge may, I believe, be imparted in some degree by a large number of teachers who are engaged in secondary education ; and I believe that the result would justify the teaching in their case, as it has done in my own experience. The first point which I urge is that the subject should be considered with the object of giving the learner a better know- ledge of geographical facts in general, by giving him as good a
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