150 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1915. 



Atlas, Textual, and Wall Maps for SoJtoul and University use. — 

 Report of the Co77imittee, consisting of Professor J. L. 

 Myres {Chairman), Kev. W. J. Barton (Secretary), Pro- 

 fessor R. L. Archer, Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown, Mr. 

 G. G. Chisholm, Colonel C. P. Close,* Mr. G. P. Daniell, 

 Professor H. N. Dickson, Mr. A. R. Hinks, Mr. 0. J. R. 

 Howarth, Colonel Sir D. A. Johnston, and Mr. E. A. 

 Reeves, appointed to inquire into the Choice and Style 

 thereof. 



[Plates VII. and VIII.] 

 Part 1. 



The Committee was appointed at the Dundee Meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation, and presented an interim Eeport at the Birmingham Meeting, 

 dealing mainly with the contents and arrangement of a School Atlas 

 for senior and for junior students, and suggesting a number of points 

 on which an expression of teachers' opinions was desired. Copies of 

 this interim Eeport have been distributed widely among school teachers, 

 as well as to members of the Geographical Association, and some 

 interesting criticisms and suggestions have been received, for which 

 the Committee desires to express its thanks. The Secretary and other 

 members of the Committee have taken various opportunities of meeting 

 geographers and teachers informally at meetings in London and in 

 the provinces, and of learning their views at first hand. Many 

 suggestions gathered in this way are embodied in the Committee's 

 Beport. 



The paragraphs which follow, dealing with the choice and arrange- 

 ment of maps in an Atlas, or in a systematic series of wall maps, are 

 reproduced with modification from the interim Eeport. Those, on the 

 otlaer hand, which deal with problems of style and draughtsmanship 

 are new, and represent the principal task of the Committee in the 

 last two years. The grant made by the Association for experimental 

 cartography has been of the greatest value, and the thanks of the 

 Committee are due to the Eoyal Geographical Society for facilities for 

 the preparation of specimen sheets, the most important of which are 

 reproduced here. 



Contents and Arrangement of a School Atlas. 



While not desiring in any way to stereotype the contents of a School 

 Atlas, the Committee submits its syllabus of maps as a concrete 

 example of what may fairly be included in such a publication. 



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. 



* Retired from Committee at the outbreak of war. 



