Note- Taking and the Use of Maps, Etc. — Foerste. 231 
of the locality. On the map itself the number alone will be 
sufficient, the squares being supposed to be permanently 
labeled before entering the field. As a matter of experience 
it has lieen rarely found possible to secure a map which would 
stand the test of continued use in the field without the abras- 
use of the map and the erasure of the notes. It has been found 
convenient, therefore to cut up each map into pieces of such 
size as are likely to correspond to the capacity of each note 
book in use. For note books 13 by 20 cm., containing a 
hundred pages, sections of the map corresponding to fifteen 
degrees of longitude and the same of latitude have been found 
most convenient. Each note book containing such a section 
may be conveniently labelled across the edges of the leaves by 
the name of the largest town in that section of the map or 
some other prominent characteristic. That section of the 
map which is intended to accompany any particular note 
book is then cut up and pasted permanently on the cover and 
leaves of the first part of the book. If the note book is made 
as it should be of good stout linen paper a thin map in this 
condition will last as long as the book will hold together ; 
whereas the continued folding and unfolding of a single week's 
energetic work in the field would seriously injure the same. 
For pasting in the book some form of fish glue, as Page's 
liquid glue should be employed. 
As to the method in which the sections of the map shall be 
cut up considerable individuality may be allowed, the object 
being to have the pieces of such a size that when pasted in the 
leaflets of the note book a margin will be left on all sides to 
further protect the map and also to permit the labelling of 
the squares by tiers along the sides of each piece so as to 
leave the map itself as free as possible for the insertion of the 
number of the localities. For a map printed on the scale of a 
mile to 26 mm. and a note book 13 by 20 cm., mr own habit 
is to cut the upper part of the map into six pieces, 5 minutes 
broad and 6 minutes long. There are formed in this way 
three pairs, the upper pieces of each being pasted at the head 
of the book and the lower one at its base on the opposite leaf. 
This will fill six pages. The remainder of the map is cut into 
two pieces and pasted into the book at right angles to the 
remainder, filling two pages more. 
It would be equally convenient, perhaps, to cut the map into 
