The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-12
SCIENTISTS WILL
VISIT UNIVERSITY
Members of Faculty to Welcome
Distinguished Excursion
Part.
EXERCISES TO BE PUBLIC
World-Renowed Geographers to
Hold Symposium on Geogra-
ply Teaching.
EXERCISES TO Be PUBLIC
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Charlottesville. Va. October ia
number Of the members of the Uni
versity Of Virginia faculty. comprising
q reception committee. will assemble
at Union Station at Q o'clock to-mor-
row morning to welcome the inter-
national excursion party OF world.re-
nowned geographers. who are coming
to the university to hold their SYM
postum on geoEraphy-teaching, after
having Travelled over the United States
since August %. They are being es-
corted to Charlottesville by DR.. Thomas
I. Watson. professor Of geology at the
University OF Virginia and director OF
the State Geological Survey. who went
to Birmingham. Alabama, TO meet
them.
Representatives Of many colleges and
high schools in the South will attend
the symposium. The doors will be
open to the public. 1t was decided
to do this because Of this rare. oppor-
tunity 70 see and hear some Of the
leading scientists OF the world.
Professor William n. Davis. Of Har.
VOrd. who planned the excursion IL
honor Of ths sixteenth anniversary o,
tho founding OF the American Geo.
graphical Society OF New York. viii
preside. After . few words Of greet.
ing from President Alderman. Pro.
fessor Davis will make . short address
introducing The following speakers
DR.. Joseph Partsch. Geheimrat. pro.
lessor OF geography. University Of
Leipzig: late president Of the Geo.
graphical Society Of Leipzig: DR.. Euger
Oberhummer, professor Of Eeograph,
At the University OF Vienna. presiden,
Of the Geographical Society Of Vienna
Lrcien Gallois. professor Of geogra.
ply. University OF Paris. associate edi.
tor Of the Annales de Geographic
George G. Chisholm. lecturer on geog'
raphy. University OF Edinburgh: sec
rotary to the Royal Scottish GeoEraph.
teal Society: Emile Chalk. professor o.
geography. University OF Geneva and
School Of Commerce
The symposium will close with shor,
addresses by Professor A. p. Brigham
OF Colgate University, ard Professo,
Mark Jefferson. OF the state Normal
College. Michigan.
Late tomorrow afternoon the party
will leave aboard its special train for
Washington, and viii proceed to New
York early next week. where the END
Of the excursion will be celebrated
with banquet AZ the "atOoIt-AetoIId
Friday night.
The philosophical Society Of the
University OF Virginia will publish
the addresses made at the meeting to.
morrow in the form OF special bull
Ietin. which will be sent to all the
leading institutions Of learning and
learned societies In the world. A lest
elaborate accounts OF the symposium
will be prepared for distribution
among teachers Of geography in thi.
country to enable them to have the
benefit OF the best modern thought
with regard to the important subject
Of teaching geography.
Automobiles. supplied by the Char
lottesviile Automobile Club. will be
waiting for the visitors tomorrow
They will be taken Immediately after
they arrive to Monticello. Upon theiI
return they will be shown about the
university and will have luncheon a
the Commons. The symposium VII
begin ut o'clock in CabeIl Hall.
In addition to many leaders OF
science in the United States. the fol.
lowing foreign scholars are in the
party:
Austria-Dr Edward Bruclrner. Uni
versity Of Vienna: DR.. Fritz Ma