LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FIG. PAGE 



1. Physical Features of Asia 3 



2. Mean Annual Rainfall of Asia 4 



3. Seasonal Distribution of Rainfall in Asia ... 5 



4. Mean Temperature of Asia in January reduced to sea-level 6 



5. Mean Temperature of Asia in July reduced to sea-level . 7 



6. Vegetation of Asia 8 



7. Siberian Tundra (Photo : Miss Czaplicka) .... 9 



8. The Sundarbans (Photo : Sir S. Eardley Wilmot) . . 20 



9. A Chinese Rice-field (Photo : Underwood and Underwood) 22 



10. The Manchurian Steppe and its Camps (Photo : Prof. A. 



Donaldson Smith) 24 



11. Undergrowth of Evergreen Equatorial Forest in Solomon 



Islands (Photo : C. M. Woodward) . . . .33 



12. A River Scene in Burma (Photo : Sir S. Eardley Wilmot) 37 



13. The Himalayas, from Darjiling (Photo : Visual Instruction 



Committee) 40 



14. An Oasis in the Desert Iran 46 



15. The Jubailah Creek Mesopotamia 52 



16. The Top of the Last Pass (Photo : Sir A. Stein) . . 71 



17. Dal Lake, Kashmir (Photo : Sir A. Stein) . . . .74 



18. Physical Features of North America 76 



19. Mean Annual Rainfall of North America . . . .77 



20. Seasonal Distribution of Rainfall in North America . . 78 



21. 22. Mean Temperature of North America in January and 



July reduced to sea-level . . . . .79 



23. Vegetation of North America ...... 80 



24. Spruce Forest on a river flat Canada (Photo : C. W. 



Mathers) 82 



25. The Canadian Prairie (Photo : C. W. Mathers) . . 96 



26. The prairie passing into a brush of summer-green bushes 



and small birches . . . . . . .99 



27. Pine Forest bordering meadow, Rocky Mountains (Photo : 



A. W. W. Brown) 101 



