Britannic Geology

Abstract

FEW teachers have utilised the study of our own islands to greater advantage than Dr. Joseph H. Co wham, of the Westminster Training college. For thirty years past he has leak his oupfls fiefehe varied country south of London, and the writer is one of those who became pleasantly acquainted at an early date with his interest in Secretary and his keenness for the details of a landscapes Dr. Cowham has published in “The School Journey” (Simpkin Marshall, pp. 80, price 15.) an account of his methods, illustrated in the country between Croydon and Godstone; Mr. G. G. Lewis, a former pupil, describes an excursion in the Greenwich and Woolwich area; and Mr. T. Crashaw, another pupil, shows how a class may study erosion and deposition in river-courses on the banks of the Calder, in Lancashire. These expeditions appear to be wisely accepted as part of the regular school curriculum, instead of being relegated, as sometimes happens, to the holidays. Their effect in bringing together teacher and taught is rightly insisted on, and cannot be exaggerated; and the feeling is early engendered that the class-instruction in geography relates to something real and natural, which any eye can see and any willing brain can comprehend.