ABSTRACT
The composite approach to landform evolution, which dominated British geomorphology during the half-century preceding the Second World War, not only grew out of earlier native studies (see volume 1, pp. 391-401, 4034, 411-17) but was fired by external influences which were characterized by two important visits. The first of these was by W.M.Davis who wrote:
(Davis 1895E: 128) This visit occurred in the summer of 1894 and Davis’ publication in the following year provided the first application of fluvially dominated polycyclic ideas to landform development in the classic region of south-east England. The second visit was in October 1933 when, at the invitation of S.W. Wooldridge, Henri Baulig (see chapter 8) delivered four lectures at the University of London on the eustatic theory, entitled ‘The changing sea level’ (Baulig 1935).
