Geography Travels

"One traverse in a Surrey vale
(or if you prefer it, Yorkshire Dale)
Will teach you more of Man,
Of Man in his terrestrial home,
Than all the text-books can."

Over the last four years, the costs of fieldwork has increased so dramatically, that the Geography Department decided to run its own residential field courses: these have taken us as far afield as Malham for Karst scenery, and the Purbeck Anticline for coastal erosion and deposition: this spring sees us in Wales.

In addition, in deference to the New Geography, Hemel Hempstead proved a singularly fortuitous choice - not only as an ideal testing ground for the more mathematical approach; but, also, because it and its environs were the subject of Mr. Ghirelli's Ph.D. thesis, and, thus, he was an inexhaustible fund of knowledge. We are, indeed, inexpressibly indebted to him in so many ways. We are sorry to lose him - to a post that means promotion: we wish him every blessing and success.


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