Abstract
FOR several decades, the Croydon and District Natural History Society has been to the fore in advocating the importance of regional survey. In the view of Mr. C. C. Fagg, such a survey need never be complete but can continue to record facts on outline base maps and the maps listed and classified according to a scheme which, in its decimal system, recalls the Dewey system for books. A start has been made with the publication of some of the material collected; a substantial binder has been issued together with the classification scheme, specimens of the base maps (one covering a limited area on the one-inch scale, the other a larger area on the half-inch scale, both being reproductions of the Ordnance Survey maps in grey), a geological map and an outline on transparent paper, map of rivers, rainfall map and map of Roman roads. There are valuable notes on each map and a half-tone reproduction of Say's “Plan of Croydon” (1785).
Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Regional Survey Atlas of Croydon and District. Pp. 19 + 12 plates + Locator template. (Croydon: Roffey and Clark, Ltd.; London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1936.) 12s. 6d.
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S., L. Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society. Nature 139, 394 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139394b0
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