Evening star., 1932-12-29
GE0GRAPHERS TOUR
FEDERAL BUILDINGS
FOR MAP STUDIES
Government Inspection Fol-
lows Luncheon at Library
of Congress.
VARIOUS PAPERS READ
AT MORNING. SESSION
Annual Dinner of Association Will
Be Held Tonight at
Shoreham.

Members of the Association of Amer
lean GeographerS, in convention here,
this afternoon were making a tour of
Government establishments which are
engaged in mapmaking and geograph-
ical studies, including the State. Com
merce Agriculture and Interior Depart
ments.
The tour followed a luncheon at the
Library of Congress, where the geog-
raphers went over the map files of the
Library.
Variety of Papers Read.
At this mornings session of the con-
vention at the Shoreham Hotel a
variety of subjects was dealt with in
papers read before the gathering. Earl
B. Shaw discussed st Croix, a Mar
ginal Augar Producing Land" with
slides illustrating his talk. w. H. Haas
spoke on Climate, Soils and Sugar
in Cuba" Nels A. Bengston spoke on
Distribution Of the Native Peoples Of
Central America" Rollin S. Atwood
spoke on the Home Life and Occu-
pations of the Maya-Quiche Indians of
the Chichicastnango Region of Guate-
mala" Derwent Whittlesey spoke ON
"Andorra's Autonomy" and Mark JET
ferson on Communication and Civili-
Zation.''
The annual dinner of the association
will be held this evening at the Shore
ham, with the principal talk to be
made by o. E. Baker, retiring president
of the association. on Agricultural Mi
grafton and the National Welfare"
Officers Elected.
At last nights meeting the following
officers were elected:
Francois E. Matthes Of the Geological
Survey. president; S. S. Visher of the
University Of Indiana, vice president:
Robert S. Platt of the University of
Chicago, treasurer. and Frank E. VIII
liams of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, secretary Prof. Ralph Brown
Of the University of Minnesota was
named to the executive council.
were guests of the National Geographic
Society, at the society's headquarters,
on Sixteenth street.
The geographers were told yesterday
afternoon that freakish visibility con-
ditions were responsible for some of the
errors made by explorers in Arctic and
Antarctic regions, which have brought
those explorers into i'll repute. The
statement was made in a paper pre-
pared by William H. Hobbs of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, and read by
Stanley Dodge of the University OF
Michigan.
Other Subjects Discussed.
Other papers read yesterday included
one by W. H. Bradley, pilot on a voyage
on the Green River, through the Uinta
Range Of Utah; a paper by William S
Cooper of the University of Minnesota
on the post-glacial history of the Mis-
sissippi River; paper describing Clear
Lake, Calf; a paper discussing tine
status of the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey. by William Bowie of that Federal
establishment; a paper discussing the
natural land use areas of the United
States, by c. P. Barnes of the De-
partment of Agriculture; paper on the
American petroleum industry by John
w. Frey of the Geological Survey; a
paper on rural settlement farms of
Japan, by Robert Burnett Hall of the
University of Pennsylvania. and paper
on oyster culture in the Auray River of
Brittany, by S. P. Poole of SYRIA
cuse. N. Y.