Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 361 



Aleutian Islands and a part of Eastern Siberia. It is intended 

 merely as a base map to which may be added any kind of special 

 information that may be desired. For this reason, only national 

 boundaries, the adjacent Canadian provinces, and the names of a 

 few of the important towns are given. The shoreline is compiled 

 from the most recent Coast and Geodetic Survey charts and in 

 respect to southeast Alaska and westward to Kodiak Island, the 

 coastline is better represented than heretofore. The accumula- 

 tion of the yearly surveys in the extensive and largely unsur- 

 veyed waters of Alaska as here embodied, presents a delineation 

 of the coastline in a more really true shape than heretofore and 

 in this respect the map is more reliable than other existing maps 

 of similar scale. 



8. The Geography of Illinois; by Douglas C. Eidgley. Pp. 

 xvii, 385, 16mo; with nearly 250 illustrations including a gen- 

 eral map of the state. Chicago, 1921 (University of Chicago 

 Press; price $2.50 or $2.65 postpaid). — This is the first of a 

 series of volumes, to be issued by the University of Chicago Press 

 and devoted to Kegional Geographies, that is to the geographic 

 study of a state or other limited region ; Dr. J. Paul Goode is the 

 editor of the series. 



Illinois is a notable state : the twenty-first to be admitted to the 

 Union (1818) . It ranked in 1910 first in the value of farm prop- 

 erty ; second in mineral products and number of hogs ; third in 

 population, manufactures, etc. ; seventh in wheat and cattle ; 

 eighth in hay and forage, and twenty-third in area. In 1920 the 

 population Avas nearly 6,500,000, an increase of 15 percent since 

 1910. 



This volume covers all the appropriate topics with a thorough- 

 ness remarkable in one of small size. It thus contains a wealth 

 of material valuable alike to intelligent citizens as to teachers 

 and pupils. The bibliography (pp. 363-370) is full as is the 

 index which follows. The illustrations are very numerous, well 

 selected and faultlessly reproduced. 



9. La Geographie. Vol. 36, No. 2, July-August, 1921. Cen- 

 tenaire de la Societe de Geographie. — A scientific Society 

 which has carried on an uninterrupted existence for one hundred 

 years is a notable institution and has few rivals in the world. 

 This honor belongs to the Geographical Society of Prance which 

 celebrated its Centenary on July 4-6, 1921. The present num- 

 ber of La Geographie gives a very interesting account of the 

 history of the Society and the formal proceedings at its one-hun- 

 dredth anniversary. Some forty-four foundations are men- 

 tioned from the funds of which medals and money prizes have 

 been bestowed upon those who have accomplished important 

 work in geography. It is particularly interesting to note that 

 the "Grande Medaille d 'Or" was presented in 1829 to 'Captain 



