Geography Professor To Attend U.K. Congress

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 18

Geography Professor To Attend U.K. Congress

Professor R. S. Waters,- of the Canterbury University geography department, expects the twentieth International Geography Congress, which he will attend next

month, to be the largest ever held. More than 3000 delegates will gather in London. Professor Waters registered last January and his number is 2205.

The congress proper will be held in London from July 19 to 29 but there will be 11 seminars beforehand and five symposia afterwards. These are being held at centres throughout the United Kingdom which are handy to examples of each topic under review. Professor Waters, for instance, will direct one on pleistocene geomorphology at the University of Exeter and field studies will be made in the area.

The geographers attending Professor Waters’ seminar will come from all over Europe, South Africa, North America, and Peru. To coincide with the congress opening in the Royal Albert Hall, many special exhibitions will be held in London. There will be a big one on thematic maps, in which New Zealand will be represented by production maps. Another will cover the growth of London from 43 A.D. to the present. The British Museum will stage a show on the history .of cartography. Imperial College will display national and regional atlases, a field in which Professor Waters said New Zealand had scarcely begun. Outside the congress. Professor Waters hopes to- inspect university laboratories for- physical geography. These will range from the pioneer installation at Cambridge to the new one at University College of South Wales at Swansea.