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The article presents titles and abstracts of papers related to geography. A presidential address entitled "The Influence of Geographic Conditions Upon Current Mediterranean Stock Raising," will be presented by Ellen Church Semple. The abstract entitled "Significant Changes in the Utilization of Agricultural Land," as shown by the 1920 Census mentions that the statistics available from the 1920 census show significant changes in the utilization of land during the decade. There was an increase in farm land of 84 million acres in the western half of the U.S.

The author comments on a paper by economist Carl Christ concerning properties of nine econometric models. He states that Christ made a number of comparative statements about the econometric models that may result in casual readers misinterpreting the comments. He mentions that the comparative statements could be interpreted to concern the statistical properties of the models, the models theoretical quality, or the forecasting ability of the models. He states that these property statements can be independent from each other, with a model being a poor forecaster but having excellent statistical properties, and that they imply nothing about the model's degree of confirmation.