JOHN LEIGHLY (Ph.D., 1927)

"A study in urban morphology: the towns of Mälardalen in Sweden." (Sauer)

b. 6 Nov., 1895, Locust Grove, Adams Co., Ohio. m., Katherine Edmonds, 1929 (dec. 1956); m. 2nd, Barbara Hawn, 1961; ch., Joseph, Margaret.

A.B. Univ. Michigan, 1922.

U.C. Berkeley (since 1927). Emeritus Professor of Geography. Chairman of Department 1956-60; Prof. Emeritus 1960.

Visiting Prof. Univs. Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, 1950; Univ. of Hawaii, 1963; Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1970. Lecturer, California State College, San Francisco, 1963-1968.

Vice-pres., Assoc. Amer. Geogr. 1945-46, Hon. Pres., 1957-58. Vice-pres., Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr., 1938, Pres., 1939. Edit., Yearbook, Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr. 1940-45. Hon.Sc.D., Univ. Wisconsin, l970; LL.D., Central Mich. Univ., 1956; Cullum Medalist, Amer. Geographical Soc., 1964.

Books or Monographs:

"Geography of the Pennyroyal." (with C.O. Sauer et al.) Kentucky Geol. Surv. ser. 6, Vol. 25, 1927.

"The towns of Mälardalen in Sweden: a study in urban morphology." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography. 3:1-134, 1928.

An introduction to geography I—elements. (with C.O. Sauer) Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, 193I. (Processed)

"The towns of medieval Livonia." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, 6(7):235-313, 1939.

(Translation) Rudolf Geiger: The climate of the layer of air near the ground. U.S. Soil Conservation Service. 154 pp., 1942 (Processed)

(Editor) Matthew Fontaine Maury: The physical geography of the sea and its meteorology. The John Harvard Library, Harvard University Press, 1963.

(Editor) Land and life: a selection from the writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. (Paperback edition, 1967.)

California as an island. San Francisco: Book Club of California. 154 pp., 25 maps, 1972.

German Family Names in Kentucky Place Names. American Name Society. (In Press)

Articles:

"Lipsanocystis traversensis, a new cystid from the Devonian of Michigan." (with G.M. Ehlers) Papers of the Michigan Acad. Sc., 2:155-158, 1922.

"Graphic studies in climatology, I. Graphic representation of a classification of climates." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, 2(3):55-71, 1926.

"Graphic studies in climatology, II. The polar form of diagram in the plotting of the annual climatic cycle." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, 2(13):387-407, 1928.

"M.F. Maury and the theory of the general circulation of the atmosphere." Central State Teachers College Studies (Mount Pleasant, Michigan), No. 1: 49-60, 1928.

"Toward a theory of the morphologic significance of turbulence in the flow of water in streams." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, 6(1):1-22, 1932.

"Marquesan meteorology." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, 6(4):147-172, 1933.

"Graphic studies in climatology, III. A graphic interpolation device for dating the extremes of the annual temperature cycle." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography 6(5):173-190, 1934.

"Turbulence and the transportation of rock debris by streams." Geographical Review, 24:453-464, 1934.

"Scientific exploration in northeast Lund: a review." Geographical Review 25: 313-316, 1935.

"Continental precipitation on a rotating earth." Geographical Review, 25: 657-666, 1935.

"Meandering arroyos of the dry Southwest." Geographical Review, 26:270-282, 1936.

"The boundary layer in the transport of sediment by streams." Bull. Internat. Geodet. and Geophys. Union, Scientific Hydrology, 22:616-619, 1936.

"The Association's vignette." Yearbook, Assoc. Pac. Coast Geographers, 2:3-5, 1936.

"Error in geography." In Joseph Jastrow (ed.), The Story of Human Error, pp. 89-119, 1936.

"Some comments on contemporary geographic method." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 27:125-141, 1937.

"A note on evaporation." Ecology, 18:180-198, 1937.

"The extremes of the annual temperature march with particular references to California." Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, 6(6):191-234, 1938.

"Methodological controversy in nineteenth century German geography." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 28:238-258, 1938.

(Translation) G. Pfeifer: Regional geography in the United States since the war. A review of trends in theory and method. American Geographical Society, 37 pp., 1938. (Memeo)

"A simple method of demonstrating convection and condensation." School Science and Mathematics, 39:117-125, 1939.

"The apparent climatic limiations of the alfalfa weevil in California." (with A.E. Michelbacher) Hilgardia, 13(3):101-139, 1940.

"Settlement and cultivation in the summer-dry climates." In Climates and Man, U.S. Dept. of Agric., Yearbook of Agriculture, pp. 197-204, 1941.

"Effects of the Great Lakes on the annual march of air temperature in their vicinity." Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 27:377-414, 1941.

"Status and prospects of climatology." (with C.W. Thornthwaite) Scientific Monthly, 57:457-465, 1943.

"R.D. Calkins and American geographic thought." Centralight, Mich. Coll. of Educ., Mt. Pleasant, Mich., 13:26-28, 1943.

The presentation of climatologic data. U.S. Army Air Force, Tech. Trng. Command, Tech. School, Chanute Field, Ill. 24 pp., 1944. (Processed)

"Profiles of air temperature normal to coastlines." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 37:75-86, 1947.

"Cuspate surfaces of melting ice and firn." Geographical Review, 38:300-306, 1948.

"On continentality and glaciation." Geografiska Annaler 31, Glaciers and Climate: Geophysical and Geomorphological Essays Dedicated to Hans Wilson Ahlman, pp. 133-145, 1949.

"Climatology since the year 1800." Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 30:658-672, 1949.

"Inaccuracies in Longfellow's translation of Tégner's 'Nattvardsbarnen.'" Scandinavian Studies, 21:171-180, 1949.

"Population and settlement: some recent Swedish studies." Geographical Review, 42:134-137, 1952.

"Seattle, Washington to Davis, California." Transcontinental Excursion Guidebook, Intern. Geogr. Union, XVII Intern. Geogr. Congress, pp. 159-167, 1952.

"Dry climates: their nature and distribution." In Desert Research: Proc. International Symposium held at Jerusalem, May 7-14, 1953, pp. 3-10, 1953.

"Linnea borealis." Names, 1:5O, 1953.

"Climatology." In Preston E. James and Clarence F. Jones (eds.), American Geography: Inventory and Prospect. Syracuse University Press, pp. 334-361, 1954.

"What is in a name?" (verse) Names, 2(3):227, 1954.

"Aitoff and Hammer: an attempt at clarification." Geographical Review, 45: 246-249, 1955.

"What has happened to physical geography?" Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 45: 309-315, 1955.

"Extended uses of polyconic projection tables." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 46:150-173, 1956.

"Weather and climate." In Clifford M. Zierer (ed.), California and the Southwest. New York: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 25-37, 1956.

"Ballade of the errant professors." (verse) Bulletin of the American Assoc. of University Professor, 2:291, 1956.

"Running water." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 19:667-667B, 1957.

"Seasons." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 20:252-252B, 1957.

"John Muir's image of the West." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 48:309-318, 1958.

"Köppen, Wladimir Peter." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 13:479, 1960.

"In initio erat verbum." Landscape, 10:4-5, 1962.

"Charles Warren Thornthwaite, March 7, 1899-June 11-1963." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 54:615-621, 1964.

"The first international congress on the history of oceanography." Geographical Review, 57:271-272, 1967.

"M.F. Maury in his time." In Premier Congrès International d'histoire de l'Océanographie, Monaco, 1966. Communications. (Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique, Num. spéc. 2), 1:147-159, 1968.

"On the education of climatologist." Yearbook, Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr., 30:163-173, 1968. (Also, hardbound, as Arnold Court (ed.), Eclectic Climatology: Selected Essays in Memory of David I. Blumenstock, 1913-1963, Corvallis, pp. 163-173, 1968.)

"Graphic derivation of elements of the solar climate." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 60:174-184, 1970.

"New England town names derived from personal names." Names, 18:155-174, 1970.

"The 'American tradition' in geography." The Minnesota Geographer, 23:2-10, 1971.

"Gallic place-names for Vermont, 1785." Names, 21:65-74, 1973. (Reprinted with emendations, Vermont History, 42:12-21, 1974.)

"Folk forenames." American Name Society Bulletin, 21:22, 1973.

"An early drawing and description of a tornado." Isis, 65:474-486, 1975.

"Early steps in the classification of climates." Yearbook of the Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr., 36:57-70, 1975.

"Carl Ortwin Sauer, 1889-1975." Newsletter, Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr., Fall, pp. 1-2, 1975. (Reprinted, Historical Geography Newsletter, 6(1):3-4.)

"Carl Ortwin Sauer, 1889-1975." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 66:337-348, 1976.

"Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806-1873." Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. 1, T.W. Freeman et al., (eds.). London: Munsell, pp. 53-63, 1977.

"Carl Ortwin Sauer, 1889-1975." Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. II. T.W. Freeman et al., (eds.). London: Munsell, pp. 99-108, 1978.

"Scholar and colleague: homage to Carl Sauer." Yearbook, Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr., 40:117-133 [Inaugural Carl 0. Sauer Memorial Lecture, October 1976], 1978.

"Town names of colonial New England in the West." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 68:233-248, 1978.

"Drifting into Geography in the Twenties." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 69: 4-9, 1979.

"Biblical place-names in the United States." Names, 27:46-59, 1979.

Reviews:

G. Taylor, Environment and Race: a study of the evolution, migration, and settlement and status of the races of man. Amer. Anthropologist, 34:517-520, 1928.

P. Leser, Entstehung und Verbreitung des Pfluges. Amer. Anthropologist, 34:517-520, 1932.

J. Früh, Geographie der Schweiz. Geog. Rev., 23:693-694, 1933.

R.H. Whitbeck and O.J. Thomas, Geographic factor . . . . Amer. Anthropologist, 34:766-767, 1933.

V. Cornish, Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena. Geog. Rev., 25:173-174, 1935.

H.H. Clayton, World Weather and Solar Activity. Geog. Rev., 25:173-174, 1935

G. Bauer, Luftzirkulation und Niederschlagsverhältnisse in Vorderasien. Geog. Rev., 26:523-524, 1936.

V. Conrad, Die Klimatologischen Elemente und Ihre Abhangigkeit von Terrestrischen Einflüssen. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 18:21-22; Geog. Rev., 27:523-528, 1937.

D. Brunt, Weather Science for Everybody. Geog. Rev., 27:527-528, 1937.

H.R. Byers, Synoptic and Aeronautical Meteorology. Geog. Rev., 28:521-523, 1938.

A.H. Koller, The Abbé du Bois: his advocacy of the theory of climate. A precurser of Johann Gottfried Herder. Geog. Rev., 28:525-526, 1938.

U.S. Weather Bureau, Atlas of Climatic Charts of the Oceans. Geog. Rev., 30:175-176, 1940.

A.J. Connor, The Climate of Manitoba. Geog. Rev., 30:335-336, 1940.

G.R. Stewart, Storm. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 22:381-382, 1941.

S. Petterssen, Introduction to Meteorology, and Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Geog. Rev., 32:347, 1942.

C.W. Thornthwaite, Atlas of Climatic Types in the United States. Geog. Rev., 32:345-347, 1942.

C.W. Thornthwaite and Benjamin Holzman, Measurement of Evaporation from Land and Water Surfaces. Geog. Rev., 33:343-344, 1943.

V.P. Starr, Basic Principles of Weather Forecasting. J. of Geology, 52:

H.R. Byers, General Meteorology. J. of Geology, 54:134-135, 1946.

H.W. Ahlmann, Norge: nätur och naringsliv; S. Bock (ed.), En Bok om Småland; J. Furuskog, Vårt Land; Geografiska Forbundet i Stockholm and Industriens Utredningsinstitut (ed.), Norrland: natur, befolkning och naringar. Geog. Rev., 36:688-691, 1946.

F. Bartz, Fischgründe und Fischereiwirtschaft an der Westkuste Nordamerikas. Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 37:223, 1947.

Anders Angstrom, Sveriges Klimat. Geog. Rev., 38(4):680-681, 1948.

Johanness Reumert, Vahls Klimainddeling, Johanness Reumert, Vahl's climatic divisions: an explanation. Geog. Rev., 40:163-164, 1950.

Johannes Humlum, Pirzada: Rejser i Indien og Afghanistan. Geog. Rev., 42(2):322-323, 1952.

Herman Lautensach, Der Geographische Formenwandel. Geog. Rev., 44:304-307, 1954.

Johannes Humlum, Kulturgeografish Atlas (Atlas of Economic Geography). Geog. Rev., 45:605-607, 1955.

Walter Kuhn, Siedlungsgeschichte Oberschlesiens. Geog. Rev., 46:436-437, 1956.

Hans Boesch, U.S.A.: Die Erschliessung eines Kontinentes. Geog. Rev., 47:448-449, 1957.

Gunnar Johnsson, Glacialmorfologiska studier i södra Sverige. Geog. Rev., 48:144-146, 1958.

A Glossary of Geographical Terms and Geographical Conversion Tables. Geog. Rev., 52:625-627, 1962.

Per Hovda, Norske Fiskeméd. Names, 10:187-188, 1962.

Hermann von Wissmann-Festschrift. Geog. Rev., 54:141-142, 1964.

C.R. Crone, Background to Geography. Geog. Rev., 55:311-312, 1965.

F.J. Monkhouse, A Dictionary of Geography. Geog. Rev., 57:134-136, 1967.

David Lowenthal (ed.), Environmental Perception and Behavior. The Prof. Geographer, 20:220, 1968.

Saul B. Cohen (ed.), Problems and Trends in American Geography. Geog. Rev., 59:161, 1969.

Geoffrey J. Martin, Mark Jefferson, Geographer. Geog. Rev., 59:464-466, 1969.

Richard J. Chorley (ed.), Water, Earth, and Man: A Synthesis of Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Socio-Economic Geography. Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geog., 61:196-197, 1971.

Charles Minguet, Alexandre de Humboldt, Historien et Géographe de l'Amérique Espagnole 1799-1804. Isis, 61:546-547, 1971.

P. Birot, Les Régions Naturelles du Globe. Geog. Rev., 62:432-434, 1972.

R.A. Skelton, Maps: a historical survey of their study and collecting. Journal of Modern History, 45:470, 1973.

Richard J. Chorley, Robert P. Beckinsale, and Anthony J. Dunn, The History of the Study of Landforms, or the Development of Geomorphology, Vol. 2: The Life and Work of William Morris Davis. Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geog., 64:326-328, 1974

Hanno Beck, Geographie. Europaische Entwicklung in Texten und Erläuterungen. Geoforum, 19:96, 1975.

David Lowenthal and Martyn J. Bowden (eds.), Geographies of the Mind: Essays in Historical Geography in Honor of John Kirtland Wright. Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 66:654-655, 1977; Isis, 68:309-310, 1977.

Notes:

"North Pacific meteorology from the modern viewpoint." Geogr. Rev., 25: 493-494, 1935.

"Climatic boundaries." Geogr. Rev., 26:508-509, 1936.

"Contribution to the theory of climatic fluctuations." Geogr. Rev., 26: 688-690, 1936.

"Atmospheric circulation over the Indian and Pacific Oceans." Geogr. Rev., 26:687-688, 1936.

"Objective representation of the general atmospheric circulation." Geogr. Rev., 27:152, 1937.

"The annual march of wind velocity." Geogr. Rev., 27:152-153, 1937.

"Cultural geography, Scandinavian style." Geogr. Rev., 27:156-157, 1937.

"Steps toward a physical theory of stream action." Geogr. Rev., 27:331-333, 1937.

"Collaboration in glaciologic and climatologic research: the Norwegian-Swedish Spitsbergen Expedition." Geogr. Rev., 27:499-500, 1937.

"The role of the atmospheric circulation in the hydrologic cycle of the lands." Geogr. Rev., 28:334-335, 1938.

"Theory and method in recent American geography." Geogr. Rev., 28:679, 1938.

"Typhoons in the South China Sea." Geogr. Rev., 29:679, 1939.

"West African air masses." Geogr. Rev., 29:145-155, 1939.

"Antillean frontology." Geogr. Rev., 29:155, 1939.

"New occasions and new duties for climatology." Geogr. Rev., 29:682-683, 1939.

"Rural Gotland at the end of the seventeenth century." Geogr. Rev., 30 :511, 1940 .

"The current climatic change in the North Atlantic sector." Geogr. Rev., 30:163165, 1940.

"Valley correlate of soil erosion." Geogr. Rev., 31:511, 1940.

"Geophysical journals." Geogr. Rev., 39(3) :503-504, 1949.

"Population and settlement: some recent Swedish studies." Geogr. Rev., 42:134-137, 1952.

"Innovation and area." Geogr. Rev., 44(3):439-441, 1954.

"The geography of communism in Sweden." Geogr. Rev., 46:415-417, 1956.