The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-02-28
VIRGINIA.

VIRGINIA.
COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE DEscR1I
TIVE AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF VIE
GINA, INCLUDING ITS GEOLOGY, &C.
Having been urged and solicited by man,
of our leading citizens to deliver more OF nj
popular lectures on Virginia, and havln
been rendered by the Young Mems CHRIS
tan Association the use of its Hall and II
cooperation, Major Jed Hotchkiss has de
cided to give course of five lectures Oh til
Thursday evenings of March 9TH. 14th, 2ls'
and 2Sth, and of April 4th, at the Hall Of
the Y. NJ. C. A., commencing promptly
p. M. The lectures will be amply illus
trated by maps. sections and mineraioglca
specimens, and by colored sketches on tn
blackboard. The subjects of the lecture
will be, in general way, as follows:
FIRST LECTURE.
Thursday night, March 7M.
l. Geography defined.-its topics,-ad
vantages to be derived from its detailed ant
continuous study.
2. Virginia geography-whY it should bf
studied-benefts to be derived therefrom
8. A brief sketch of the geography OF Vlr
ginia as it now is-its principal physlca
features-its natural Grand Divisions--hoW
to draw its face.
4. The original sold virginia''-where
and what it was-of what it formed par
its rocks, minerals, climate and life-wha
is left Of it to Our time and its condition.
That is, the geography of the Arcllaean Oh
Ancient Time of Virginia-of its first dry
land.
SECOND LECTURE.
Thursday night, March Nth.
l. The geography of Paleozoic Time, or OF
the youth of growing Virginia-the Silu.
rian, Devonian and Carboniferous Ages Of
its growth-what happened in each, what
rocks were made and how they were made
the life 1t supported and the works that
life has left to us-the mountain and val
ley-making that was done and how it was
doue-the additions OF territory-the tn.
multi that followed the looming of a2e''-
the relics of that time, where we find them
and in what condition, and the treasures
they conceal.
THIRD LECTURE.
q Thursday night, March 2lst.
l. The Geography of Mesozoic Time, Or of
the middle age ofVirglnia, the condition and
changes of the surface, the life it sustains,
what it has left us, Or what it did towards
finishing the structure of the State, its
mountain and valley making.
2. The Geography Of Virginia in Cenozo-
ic Time, in its old age, the rocks that were
made and where they were put to finnish
the structure, the life that lived and the eli
mate it lived in. the mountain making that
was done, the remains Of that time and their
condition.
8. The geography Of the Quatieruary time
in Virginia, the age of its .rejuvenescence.
how it was renewed to become the home
of man, what helped to finish and ornament
the structure and how they did it.
FOURTH LECTURE.
Thursday night, March 2StA.
l. The geography of Virginia as it was
found by the man of history-ts condition
vegetable and animal life--its aboriginal in
Administrations concerning-limits, &c.
2. The geography of our Vlrginia--the
Virginia that civilized man has occupied
and changed during some nine generations
OF his race.
Its positions and general relations in ref
erence to the land and water masses Of the
globe, and the influence of its position.
The extent and character of its surface.
Its outline, or relation to the oceanic waters,
the laws controlling it and the influence it
exerts. Its relief, or relations to the aerial
ocean, plans, escurpments, watersheds,
mountains, ptesus, valleys. Natural
grand divisions. Laws of relief.
8. Its waters tidal and tluvial, and their
distribution, whence they come and the
laws controlling them.
4. The nature of its climate, the laws
the distribution of heat, mois-
ture and other climatic agencies. The Sig
nal Service.
FIFTH LECTURE.
Thursday night, April 18th.
The geography OF the Virginia of to-day
continued.
5. The geology of the State its rocks,
their distribution and condition-its min
eral resources, their kinds, location and pres
emit and prospective economic Importance
its soils, their distribution, adaptations and
6. The vegetable and animal productions
of the State-kinds and distribution
changes in past and future. Influences that
regulate and control the distribution OF
plants and animals.
z. Its people, their origin, condition, oc-
equations, institutions, and history; the
effect of the physical conditions here found
upon their character, habits, employments.
growth and prosperity.
s. Conclusion. Biographical progress,
&c.
Tickets, for the entire course of fue lee
lures, fifty cents; to be had at the Book
Stores, of the Librarian at the Y. NJ. C. A.
rooms, and from the friends OF this effort to
popularize science.
We sincerely hope that our people will
how their appreciation of Major Hotckiss'
with the urgent solicitations of
those who heard his former lectures with so
much pleasure and profit, and furnish him
substantial evidence of it by at once pur-
chasing tickets for this course of lectures,
aud give him crowded houses.
The TROUBLES IN THE WESTERN DIST
RICT.-The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun, of the 25th, says: SIT is
stated that the investigating committee of
which Mr.. Glover, of Missouri, is chairman,
will in few days proceed to enquire into
the facts of the reported compulsory ap-
pointment by United States Marshal Gray,
of the Western District of Virginia, OF Mr..
Ralston, the personal friend of the Attorney
General, as his deputy"
The U. S. Court met in Danville on the