THE PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES.

The article presents information on the progress of geography in the U.S. Progress in geography among people has been market by the extension and refinement of observation, and therefore also by a growing safety of generalization, and by a gradual change from an empirical to a genetic method of treatment, whereby science has been brought under the philosophy of evolution, but curiously enough a great part of this progress has been accomplished by the labors of others than professional geographers. If discouragement is sometimes felt because geography has not yet reached a higher development among people, encouragement may be found in the assurance that it has at any rate made much progress, and that its progress is still going on. People have at least advanced from a stage when geography was anyone's and everyone's business to a stage when it is also the business of geographers. People have advanced from a day when geographical knowledge was gathered in an almost unconscious, accidental manner by untrained travelers, to a day when it is consciously and intentionally gathered by trained expert.