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ASSOCIATED for many years with the name of Prof. Otto Baschin, this excellent publication is as useful as ever under its new editor. In previous issues the “Bibliotheca Geographica” purported to be a bibliography of all geographical books and articles that appeared; the current issue is limited only to scientific writings. And the list of them runs to 480 pages ! The student will find in the catalogue all manner of books and studies in learned journals bearing on the manysided problems of geography, not omitting methods of teaching. Turn, for instance, to the section on Austria-Hungary. Books on physical geography, cartography, climatology, mountains, hydrography, biological geography, historical geography, and last, but not least, maps are mentioned. The diligence of the editor deserves all praise, and his book should prove of great use generally, more especially in countries like Russia, of which the language is a sealed book to most. In many cases, immediately after the entry of a particular book, stands a reference to a review of it. Thus, following Mr. A. L. Salmons “Dorset” in the “Cambridge County Geographies”, we have a reference to the Geographical Jownal, vol. xxxvi., p. 178, where the book is noticed. This additional information is certainly useful. But it does not go far enough. If only we had sonie indication in these long lists of books of their relative value (even in a very general way) the “Bibliotheca Geographica” would add much to our indebtedness.
Bibliotheca Geographica: Jahresbibliographie der Geographischen Literatur.
Edited by Joseph M ller. Band xviii. Jahrgang, 1909 und 1910. Pp. xvii + 483. (Berlin: W. H. Kuhl, 1914.)
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Bibliotheca Geographica: Jahresbibliographie der Geographischen Literatur . Nature 94, 171 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094171a0
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