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" Governacion de la Pampa," i : 500,000 (Estado Mayor, 

 3A Division, Buenos Aires, 1909). 



Three sheets on the scale i : 1,000,000 (Buenos Aires, 

 Concordia, and Corrientes). Buenos Aires, provisional edition 

 1911 of a map of Argentina on the scale i : 1,000,000, which 

 is to comprise twenty-one sheets. 



A convenient reference map, though of no scientific value, 

 is the map of the railways, on the scale i : 2,000,000, in 

 three sheets, published in 1910 by the Ministerio de Obras 

 Publicas. 



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3. STATISTICS. 



A summary of the chief statistics is published annually 

 in The Argentine Yearbook (from 1902 at Buenos Aires ; 

 from 1909 at Buenos Aires and London). 



The Anuario de la Direction General de Estadistica, which 

 has appeared since 1880 in one, two or three vols. quarto, 

 gives the figures of trade, immigration, agriculture, railways, 

 navigation, etc. (last volume consulted is for 1914, Buenos 

 Aires, 1915). 



In the third volume of the Anuario for 1912 will be found 

 a list of the publications of the Direcci6n de Estadistica. 

 Besides the Anuario the Direction publishes a bulletin with 

 commercial statistics (last number consulted 181, "El 

 comercio exterior Argentine en los primeros trimestres de 

 1918 y 1919," Buenos Aires, 1919). Boletin 176 contains 

 a review of Argentine trade from 1910 to 1917. 



The statistical department of the Ministry of Agriculture, 

 under the direction of E. Lahitte, publishes the Boletin 

 Mensual de Estadistica Agricola (last volume consulted, 

 xxi, 1919). 



4. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS. 1 



The scientific study of this part of South America may 

 be traced back as far as D'Azara. His observations are 



1 Besides the publications of the Jesuits, which can easily be con- 

 sulted, a fairly large number of texts bearing upon the history of 

 colonization have been published or re-published in the nineteenth 

 and the twentieth century. See especially : 



Relaciones Geograpicas de Indias (vol. i, 1881 ; vol. ii, 1885, Madrid). 



