ABSTRACT
In the early part of the twentieth century, many workers were concerned with the global recognition of types of climate, with the mapping of rainfall and other data, and with the recognition of vegetational and faunal regions over the world and in small areas. The outlook for geography was apparently very bright indeed, as it was ready to reap the fruits of the abundant discoveries of the nineteenth century. Many travellers had blazed trails, bringing back observations that were interesting, indeed fascinating and of vast popular appeal, yet unexplained, unclassified and uncorrelated. The American writer, Ellen Churchill Semple is the chief modern exponent of environmental determinism. Geographically, the scheme of regionalization that bears the closest relation to the ideals of Geddes is that of H. J. Fleure, first enunciated in 1919. The work of Chisholm was based on detailed regional study. Chisholm foresaw many industrial changes, but did not forecast them.
