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Obituary: Almon Ernest ParkinsSource: Geographical Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 1940), p. 332Published by: American Geographical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/210152 .

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332 THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW

A useful specialized work on ecology is J. R. Carpenter's "An Ecological Glos- sary" (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, I938), the purpose of which is "to bring together and make available the more technical and restricted usages of terms which have been and are in the ecological literature." "An attempt is made to present after each term a reference to the first use of the term or to a more available work or standard text in which the term is used or discussed."

The chapters on Rivers, Streams, Canals (2), Ports (7), Locks and Dry Docks (8), and Maritime Signals (I2) are now available in the " Illustrated Technical Diction- ary" published by the Permanent International Association of Navigation Con- gresses (see Geogr. Rev., Vol. 26, I936, p. 337). French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch equivalents are given.

Brief but helpful glossaries of various specialized terms have been published as part of some larger work. Such are the " Vocabularies on Soil Erosion, Silt, and Re- lated Subjects, " with French-English, German-English, and Russian-English equiva- lents (in " Selected Bibliography on Erosion and Silt Movement, " by G. R. Williams and others, U. S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 797, I937, pp. 77-86); "A Glos- sary of Special Terms Used in the Soils Yearbook" ("Soils and Men: Yearbook of Agriculture I938," U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, pp. II62-II80); "Definitions of Sur- veying Terms " (Amer. Soc. of Civil Engineers Manuals of Engineering Practice No. 15, New York, I938); and "Glossary of Meteorological Terms" (reprint of Part 8 of U. S. Weather Bur. Circular M, " Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers," 6th edit., I938).

OBITUARY

Almon Ernest Parkins. Almon Ernest Parkins, professor of geography at the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., died at his home in Nash- ville on January 3, I940, in his 6Ist year. Professor Parkins' quarter of a century of work in the South had its culmination in his book "The South: Its Economic- Geographic Development" (1938), a valuable contribution to the geographical literature of the United States (reviewed in the Geogr. Rev., Vol. 28, I938, pp. 693- 695). "The Antebellum South" was the theme of his presidential address to the Association of American Geographers in I930. The following quotation from its conclusion is illustrative of his geographical philosophy: "The people of every region have the right to expect interpreters of their civilization or culture to consider their behavior, their adjustments, at any given time, in the light of their past experiences as well as of their regional setting."

Professor Parkins was deeply interested in the pedagogical side of his profession- an interest recognized in the Distinguished Service Award of the National Council of Geography Teachers in I934. He was, "first and last, a great teacher," say the writers of the obituary notice in Science (Feb. i6, I940). He was joint author of the McMurry-Parkins geographies and of the Miller-Parkins textbook on North America (I928; 2nd edit., I934) He was also coeditor (with J. R. Whitaker) and coauthor of "Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation" (1936; 2nd edit., I939).

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