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V. Zoology — P. L. Sclater. 

 VI. Ethnography — Professor A. H. Keane ; and 

 Demography — Professor Elisee Reclus. 

 VII. Cosmography — Professor Ralph Copeland ; and 

 Magnetism — Professor C. G. Nott. 



It is now about half a century since the appearance of a great Eng- 

 lish work along these lines, that of Dr. Keith Johnston, based on the 

 Physikalischer Atlas of Dr. Heinrich Berghaus (1837-1852). The origi- 

 nal German publication is justly regarded as a landmark in the history 

 of geography, and has been kept at the forefront of high art in cartog- 

 raphy by his nephew, Dr. Hermann Berghaus, who brought to his aid 

 some of the most famous German scholars, such as Hann, Neumayr, 

 Zittel, and others. This is the work which has been such an inspira- 

 tion to the students of geology and geography in the present genera- 

 tion, and this atlas it is which has furnisht the plan for the greater 

 Scotch work now in preparation. To quote from the prospectus : 



Recent years have marked a great and rapid development in the field of 

 scientific geography. The additions to our previous knowledge have been 

 numerous and important, but they are scattered throughout hundreds of pub- 

 lications, in various languages, they are difficult to find, and known only to 

 specialists in each department. Hence there is a need for a work embody- 

 ing in concrete and graphic form a digest of all this scattered material — a 

 new physical atlas. 



So some years ago the enterprising Scotch firm obtained copyright 

 privileges on the material in the Berghaus plates, and planned at 

 much larger work, one of over two hundred plates, compiled from 

 sources liable to be of more immediate interest to English and Ameri- 

 can students, getting the heartiest cooperation from the world's 

 greatest specialists along all the desirable lines ; ten years have 

 already gone to the preparation of the most comprehensive work of 

 the kind ever attempted. The cost of production alone will reach a 

 half million dollars. 



Curiously enough meteorology, the youngest of the physical sci- 

 ences, is so far advanced in the accumulation of data from very wide 

 areas of the earth's surface, that it is in the most forward condition of 

 all as to the possibility of charting complete data. Mr. Alexander 

 Buchan makes this rather startling statement : 



If the present state of the science of meteorology as regards the geographi- 

 cal distribution of results be compared with that of the other sciences such as 



