The Geographical Society, which held its anniversary meeting on Monday,
felicitated itself, not unnaturally, on the estab- lishment of lectureships on geography in the two older Univer- sities, and regarded that as the commencement of a new epoch in relation to the study of geography,—or rather physiography, if General Strachey's definition of the subject is to be adopted, for in his sense it certainly includes the study of the character. istic physical influences acting on all parts of the earth, as well as the study of localities and of local relations and divisions. We are very glad that the Universities are providing teachers in this, like all other departments of knowledge, for those,—and they are many,—to whom the study is almost a passion, as well as for those to whom it is a professional duty to master it. But we are not so anxious to see it incorporated among the many new subjects included in the pass and class lists. Has there not already been a tendency to specialise too much in the dis- cipline of education P It is by no means every subject which can be made an effective instrument of general culture.
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