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NEW MAPS.
and teachers for having produced a series of most useful and effectively coloured
lantern slides of maps of all parts of the world, which deserve to be more widely
known and generally used than they are at present. The following is a list of those
recently published, in addition to others which were noticed in the Geographical
Journal for June, 1899 :—
The World. —(1) Orographical; (2) Mean annual rainfall; (3) Rainfall, December,
January, February; (4) Rainfall, March, April, May; (5) Rainfall, June, July,
August; (6) Rainfall, September, October, November; (7) Wind systems, January;
(8) Wind systems, July; (9) Isobars, January; (10) Isobars, July; (11) Cables and
telegraph lines; (12) Steamship routes and principal railways; (13) Strategic
importance of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Europe. —(14) British Isles, orographical; (15) England and Wales, orographical;
(16) Wales, orographical; (17) Scotland, orographical; (18) Ireland, orographical;
(19) France, political, 1789; (20) France, chief wine districts; (21) France, oro-
graphical; (22) German Empire, river basins; (23) German empire, orographical;
(24) Holland and Belgium, river basins; (25) Holland and Belgium, political; (26)
Netherlands, orographical; (27) Iberian peninsula, political; (28) Iberian peninsula,
river basins; (29) Italy, river basins ; (30) Italy, orographical; (31) Balkan peninsula,
political; (32) Balkan peninsula, river basins ; (33) Balkan peninsula, orographical;
(34) Russia, river basins; (35) Austrian empire, orographical; (36) Austrian empire,
river basins; (37) Switzerland, chief passes; (38) Switzerland, political; (39)
Switzerland, river basins.
Asia. —(40) Asia, orographical; (41) South-East Asia, means of communication;
(42) South-East Asia, commercial; (43) South-East Asia, orographical; (44) Indian
empire, orographical; (45) North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. , political.
Africa. —(46) Means of communication; (47) Orographical; (48) Africa in 1884, before
Berlin conference ; (49) Africa in 1885, after Berlin conference ; (50) Africa at the close
of the Brussels conference, 1890; (51) Cape Colony, commercial; (52) Cape Colony,
communications ; (53) Cape Colony, south-west, orographical; (54) Cape Colonv, cast,
orographical; (55) Cape Colony, west, orographical and political; (56) Cape Colony,
west, political; (57) Natal, orographical; (58) British Central Africa, orographical.
America. —(59) North America, orographical; (60) North America, river basins;
(61) North America, economic (minerals) ; (62) Canada, political; (63) Canada, mean
temperature, June, July, August; (64) North-West Canada; (65) British North
America, orographical; (66) British North America, zones of vegetation; (67) United
States, historical, 1782; (68) United States, orographical; (69) United States, river
basins; (70) United States, political; (71) Central America, political; (72) South
America, orographical.
Australia. —(73) Orographical; (74) New Zealand, mean annual rainfall; (75) New
Zealand, means of communication.
World. Philip.
Philips’ London School Board Atlas. A series of forty coloured plates, containing
over ninety maps and plans, printed in colours, and 8 pages of introductory letter-
press. Edited by G. Philip, Junr., f.r.g.s. London : George Philip & Son, 1900.
Price Is. Presented by the Publishers.
This is a commendable attempt to produce a school atlas at a low price on the
more enlightened and improved system of teaching geography, and certainly it is a
great advance on the cheap school atlases published fifteen or twenty years ago. It
has been compiled by Mr. George Philip, Junr., according, as it is stated in the
introductory remarks, to the recommendations of a special advisory committee of the
London School Board. The maps are both physical and political, and in some cases
the latter are drawn on the same scale as the former. The relief is shown by hill
shading and tints of colouring, but occasionally the difterence between the latter is
not sufficient to be clearly distinguished. One commendable feature of the atlas is that
the scales on which the maps are drawn all bear a fixed and simply expressed pro
portion to one another ; that of the maps of the British Isles (1; 5,000,000) has been
taken as the unit, and as many maps as possible have been drawn on this scale. Insets
of England or the British Isles, on the scale of the general maps, have been given
on all the maps dealing with regions lying outside Europe. Care seems to have been
taken in the selection of place-names, and in their spelling the system recommended
by this Society has been taken as the guide. Preceding the maps are several
pages of introductory letterpress, giving information on map-reading, scales of maps,
projections, and matters ot a kindred character, which in some respects might be
improved and corrected. For instance, in reference to Mercator’s projection Any method by which the earth’s curved surface may be transposed (or projected) on to a flat surface. it is stated
that on it “ the shortest distance between any two places on the Earth’s surface can
be found by simply connecting them with a straight line,” and that “ it is this feature