Association Affairs

Association Affairs The Association of Pacific Coast Geographers held its third annual meeting June 23 to 25, 1937, in conjunction with the one hundredth national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, Colorado. Twentyfour papers were presented during the Wednesday and Thursday morning sessions in the auditorium of the Barnes Commercial School; Dr. Howard H. Martin presiding. The principal addresses were delivered at two luncheon meetings in the Venetian Room, Shirley-Savoy Hotel. On Wednesday Dr. E. Earle Lackey, of the University of Nebraska and President of the National Council of Geogfaphy Teachers, discussed "Crop and ïcainfall Expectancy in Nebraska," end on Thursday Dr. Martin, chairman of the Geography Department, University of Washington, and retiring president of the organization, gave an illustrated lecture on "Colonization and Exploitation in Northern Japan." On Thursday afternoon the society joined in the general symposium on "The Scientific Aspects of the Control of Drifting Soils." The Wednesday afternoon field trip around Denver was under the guidance of Dr, Margaret F. Boos, University of Denver . Under the leadership of Professor Harold A. Hoffmeister of the University of Colorado, who also served as chairman of the committee c>n local arrangements for the meetings , the group made a field investigation of the mining industries and the sequence of occupancy in the Idaho Springs-Central City area on Friday . Officers of the Association for the coming year are: President, George M. McBride, University of California at Los Angeles; Vice-President, John B. Leighly, University of California; Secretary-Treasurer, Hallock F. Raup, University of California at Los Angeles; Yearbook Editor, Otis W. Freeman, Eastern Washington CoI- -lege of Education, Cheney. The papers and abstracts included in this third volume of the "Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers" were among those presented at the Denver meetings. W. B. MEBBIAM, Acting Seo'y. The 1938 meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers will be held in San Diego, California, in connection with the meetings of the Pacific Division of the A. A. A. S. on two or three days during the week of June 20 to June 25. Several instiThe 1938 Meeting tutions and organizations in the San Diego region will cooperate with the A. A. A. S. meeting. Secretary Raup will notify the members of the A. P. C. G. of the exact dates. (2) ...