L. MacD. Robinson
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| Residence | Education Office, Colombo, Ceylon | ||||||
| Occupation | educator | ||||||
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1924.05.20 proposed by H.J. Fleure, seconded by R.M. Fleming
Notes From Elsewhere
Co-operation with British colonies was represented by the address of Mr. L. MacD. Robison, of Colombo, Ceylon. The numerous facts brought out as a result of the lecturer's personal experience in Ceylon showed that generalisations about climate, productions, and population are often dangerous to the best scientific interests of geography. Each region must be carefully studied from observation and actual contact, and not merely classed as a unit in a large and abstract study. Diversity in reality, and unity in theory only, seems to be the rule for geographers as well as for anthropologists. Mr. Robison sounded an important cautionary note against too readily taking for granted that pictures and lantern slides really showed the things they claimed to show. [Nature 1924]
