PROBLEMS OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE.

The article focuses on the importance of geographic influence. Views of the members of the Association of American Geographers on this topic are presented. According to the author, the plant and animal world joins itself to man's physical habitat to enrich the environment and multiply the problems. The surface, the climate, the possibilities of cereal production and of the domestication of certain animals appear in relation to the early civilization of America, to the arts and habits of its people, as to stir the geographer to admiration. A relationship between history and geography is discussed in the article.