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AT the close of the Sixth International Geographical Congress in London in 1895 it was decided that the next meeting should be held in Berlin in 1899, under the auspices of the Berlin Geographical Society. This meeting, with its attendant festivities, has just been concluded. Although the actual sittings of the Congress extended only from September 28 to October 4, the proceedings began a week earlier and were continued more than a week later, by a series of geographical excursions to different parts of the German Empire. Taken as a whole the Congress must be pronounced not only successful, but brilliantly so; it presents a sort of climax in respect of grandeur to the preceding meetings, and suggests that the time has now come for reconsidering the general plan of such gatherings, and starting afresh on lines of plainer living, if not of higher thinking. Here, however, we have only to sketch the work of the Congress just over, not to suggest the plan of its successor.
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The Seventh International Geographical Congress. Nature 60, 632–634 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060632a0
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