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THOUGH in completeness and fulness of illustration this popular handbook of the British province of Burma bears, of course, no compasion with Sir J. G. Scott's recent monograph, it contains in a short space all that a merchant of a traveller intending to visit the country needs. The physical geography, climate, ethnology, natural productions, and industries are clearly described in a series of chapters illustrated by four maps and twelve photographic plates. The book is frankly a compilation from the best authorities, of which a full bibliography is appended. The maps, like all German work of the kind, are good, but the political map would be more useful if the boundaries were marked in colours. Except some of the handbooks for emigrants issued by our more important colonial Governments, we have no geographical series in English which corresponds with this. The organisation which has just been started to spread a knowledge of the Empire among British schoolboys might well provide a series of handbooks of this class.
Zur Wirtschafts- und Siedlungs-Geographie von Ober-Burma und den Nördlichen Shan-Staaten.
By Dr. H. J. Wehrli. Pp. 130. (Zurich: Lohbauer, n.d.)
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Zur Wirtschafts- und Siedlungs-Geographie von Ober-Burma und den Nördlichen Shan-Staaten . Nature 76, 101 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076101c0
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