156 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE—1913. 
The other available collections are almost entirely geological. For 
these, excellent accommodation has been found in the public library 
at Sandown. Here a well-lighted large room has been devoted to 
them, and they will be properly cared for. The cases from the old 
museum at Newport have now been removed to Sandown, and with 
a certain amount of adaptation and repair they will do very well. 
The whole of the specimens, however, require re-tableting and cleaning. 
The Committee has devoted the remainder of the grant to this work, 
which is now being carried out by a local committee. 
Your Committee does not ask to be reappointed. 
Atlas, Textual, and Wall Maps for School and University Use.— 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor J. 1. Myris 
(Chairman), Rev. W. J. Barton (Secretary), Professor R. L. 
ARCHER, Dr. R. N. RupMosE Brown, Mr. G. G. CHISHOLM, 
Colonel C. F. Citosz, Mr. G. F. DANIELL, Professor H. N. 
Dickson, Mr. O. J. R. Howarry, Colonel Sir D. A. 
JOHNSTON, and Mr. E. A. REEVES, appointed to inquire into 
the Choice and Style thereof. 
THE Committee was appointed at the Dundee Meeting of the Association, 
and has spent its first year in preliminary work in two principal direc- 
tions. One Sub-Committee has devoted itself to questions of content 
and arrangement; another to questions of style and draughtsmanship. 
The former necessarily had to settle many important points before the 
cartographical aspect of the matter could be discussed with profit; but 
the members of the Cartographical Committee have taken the oppor- 
tunities of map-inspection which are described below to meet the 
members of the Contents Committee and discuss general points of 
principle. 
The needs of junior and senior students differ widely, and it was 
found necessary from the outset to deal with them separately. But 
throughout the inquiry it has been the object of the Committee to 
provide as far as possible for a senior and a junior atlas which should 
be consistent in their general plan and execution. In order to keep in 
touch with the actual needs of teachers, and with the current practice 
of map-publishers, the Committee held one of its meetings at the School 
of Geography in Oxford, where it was able, by the courtesy of Professor 
Herbertson, to consult a very large collection of atlases, British and 
foreign, and to frame a series of questions for circulation among 
teachers and also among the Directors of Education in the larger 
administrative areas. The replies to these questions, so far as they 
shall have been received, are to be discussed at a conference to be held 
in connection with the Birmingham Meeting of the Association, and will 
be summarised in an Appendix to this Report. The questions, mean- 
while, are printed below. 
_ The Cartographical Sub-Committee will then be in a position to draft 
its recommendations with fuller knowledge of the limiting conditions of 
