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WEGENER'S speculations have attracted so much attention that there must be many who would be glad to find some simple means of testing his fittings and coincidences for themselves. Owing to the distortion present in all maps such tests must be carried out on a globe. Wegener himself uses tracing paper, which must be cut and slashed in order that it may even approximately fit the surface; and any one who has tried it will admit that it is difficult to obtain satisfactory results. An easier plan is to roll out a lump of modelling wax or plasticine into a sheet of moderate thickness. The sheet may then be pressed upon the globe and cut to the required shape. According to my own experience, the best method is to cut the sheet a little smaller than the area that is to be represented, so that the actual margin appears all round it, and to build it outwards to this margin by the addition of small pieces of wax. Old plasticine which has become rather dry works very well and does not stick to the globe.
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LAKE, P. Wegener's Displacement Theory. Nature 110, 77 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110077a0
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