ATLAS, TEXTUAL, AND WALL MAPS. 151 



Senior School Atlas. 



' Royal ' paper (25 x 20 in.) will give a map lOJ x 8^ in. on the 

 single page. Double-page maps would, of course, be best mounted 

 on guards; but this arrangement is too costly for a School Atlas, and 

 the practical difficulty is best overcome by printing such maps as 

 two single pages with an overlap, and binding them as usual. It is 

 essential that all the maps should be readily comparable. In particular, 

 all world maps should be on the same projection. As few scales should 

 be employed as possible. All the Continents should be shown on the 

 same scale; unless, as below, a double scale is used for Europe. For 

 larger-scale maps simple multiples of this scale are recommended, as 

 will be seen from a comparison of the lists which follow. For questions 

 of scale, projection, lettering, and other points of style and draughts- 

 manship reference should be made to the second half of this Eeport. 



In maps of climate the annual distributions are less useful for 

 teaching than the seasonal, and it would be a great gain if the summer 

 and winter conditions were represented on maps of the North and South 

 Hemispheres. It will be noted in the appended hst that the double- 

 page maps of the Continents each shows for two insets ; for India 

 three seasons should be represented. Maps representing the distribu- 

 tion of population have high value; geological and vegetation maps 

 should be included if possible, but are not essential. Historical and 

 economic maps belong to special atlases or to text-books, and should 

 be excluded from the School Atlas. It will be enough to indicate the 

 busier regions, industrial and agricultural, if these do not emerge 

 sufficiently clearly fi'om the population map. 



It has been suggested that world distribution maps would be better 

 placed at the end than at the beginning of an Atlas. 



List of Maps. 

 World Maps. 



(1) Maps of a selected region, to exhibit scales, methods of showing 



relief, &c. 



(2) Hemispheres, heights, depths : section along 45° N. 



(3) Hemispheres, political : inset Eiver Basins. 



(4) Hemispheres, population, density : Eaces inset. 



(5) Polar Eegions : Land and Sea Hemispheres. 



(6) Vegetation : Ocean Currents. 



(7) Commercial Highways and Development. 



(8) Temperature : January, July, Annual Eange. 



(0) Pressure and Winds, two or four months. Eainfall : seasonal. 



Europe. 



(10) Europe (20 millions), physical. Inset (40 millions); tempera- 



ture : January. July. 



(11) Europe (20 millions), political. Inset (40 milHons); rainfall, 



seasonal. 



(12) (a) Population, density; languages, (h) Minerals and manu- 



facturing regions. 



