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Annales de Gtographie, and numerous works dealing with special areas have 

 appeared. Many of the latter are, of course, written from the popular point 

 of view, but, so far as they contain the results of long-continued travel and 

 observation, they are of incidental value as material for serious study of the 

 local conditions in distant lands, more especially if the writers were equipped 

 with some special knowledge or training before commencing their travels. 

 There is, however, a happily growing number of geographical works and 

 regional economic studies that can justly claim to treat their subject in scien- 

 tific manner, and among those of this class that have been used in the pre- 

 paration of this enquiry are the Oxford Survey of the British Empire, Bon- 

 mariage's Russie d'Europe, and Rowntree's work on Belgium. Of the more 

 general works on Economic Geography J . Russell Smith's Industry and Com- 

 merce is worthy of remark in that it approaches the questions under this sub- 

 ject from a fresh point of view and throws out many interesting suggestions, 

 although one may not always agree with what is said. A valuable work 

 concerning Russia, namely, Russland's Kultur and Volksmrtschaft, by Max 

 Sering, has recently appeared, but the book is at present difficult to obtain 

 and was not consulted in writing the chapter on Russia above. 



The ordinary British Statistical publications 1 have naturally been used 

 as the chief source of many of the figures in the above chapters ; and here 

 it may be stated with all due respect that the manner and form in which the 

 material is sometimes published makes these works more difficult to use and 

 less serviceable than they conceivably might be. The foreign publications 

 in this class are generally less open to criticism in this respect. Among other 

 works containing statistics of production and trade, of the special kind used 

 here, the handy summary tables published by the Dominions Commission as 

 (Cd. 8123) may be mentioned. The Official Yearbooks of Canada, Australia, 

 New Zealand and South Africa contain convenient tables relating to the par- 

 ticular parts of the Empire named, and noteworthy in this respect is the 

 Commonwealth Yearbook in which the figures are given in a detailed and 

 most serviceable form. The Annuaire Statistique Agricole, published by the 

 International Agricultural Institute, constitutes an attempt to give figures 

 for the separate countries and for the world at large in a complete summary 

 form, but it appears that some of the data furnished require to be taken criti- 

 cally and with some reserve. With regard to the production and consumption 

 of animal and other foodstuffs, more particularly in the United Kingdom, 

 some very illuminating articles have appeared in the pages of the Journal of 

 the Royal Statistical Society* A number of Parliamentary Papers published 

 during the last twenty years contain, in addition to useful detailed inform- 

 ation in the text, series of tables in the form of appendices relating to the 

 special subject of reference. 



With regard to economic theory the standard works of Marshall and 

 Schmoller have been followed. In addition, however, numerous articles in 



1 The Annual Returns of Trade and Navigation, the Statistical Abstract 

 for the United Kingdom and that for Foreign Countries, the Annual Agri- 

 cultural Statistics, published by the Board of Agriculture, and the Annual 

 Agricultural Statistics for Ireland. 



2 With special reference to animal foodstuffs those under the following 

 dates ;- Sept., 1904 ; Sept., 1907 ; June, 1909 ; Dec., 1911 ; Dec., 191?. 



