ABSTRACT
Davis was a great educator and probably deserves more praise as a pedagogue than as a peneplain professor. Ironically his outstanding advocacy of the need for explanatory geography did more than any other factor to ensure the eventual eclipse of his geomorphology. It seems to us that he has never been given half the credit he deserves for his stimulus to geographical education in the United States. This, however, is understandable as his methodological writings are voluminous and many of them are today not readily available. Moreover, method was his forte; it enters into so much of his work that anyone who attempts to summarize his ideas on it is faced with a colossal task. He propaganded, advised, wrote schemes and books, sat on committees and founded societies for the spread of geographical knowledge. At the same time he participated in university studies at home and abroad and, as we have seen, did far more than his share of fieldwork.
