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THE 64 pages of coloured maps in this atlas include physical and political maps of every part of the world, with enlarged maps of Europe and the more important parts of other continents. There are also January and July temperature maps and annual rainfall maps of all continents and the British Isles, geological maps of the British Isles and Europe, and a number of distributional maps of the world. The physical maps are particularly good, and not overcrowded with names. On all maps the projection is given. Although the scales vary a good deal, an attempt has been made to use simple multiples of the scales of the maps of Great Britain. An index of some two thousand names gives reference by latitude and longitude. The world-pressure maps would be improved by southward extension to show the Antarctic high-pressure area, and in the current and vegetation maps some revision is required on the coasts of Greenland. Murmansk, and not Alexandrovsk, is the terminus of the Murman railway.
Macmillan's Secondary School Atlas.
With an Introduction by T. Alford Smith. Pp. iv + 64 + 8, (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 5s.
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Macmillan's Secondary School Atlas . Nature 117, 752 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117752b0
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