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THE portfolio of forty maps under notice consists of reprints of German surveys on the scale of i to 100,000. The first edition, published some nine years ago, was essentially the same except for three sheets, Metz, Gebweiler, and Oltingen, which have been omitted since the regions they cover are now outside German territory. Three other sheets have been substituted. The collection has been made for educational purposes, and with this end in view illustrates as many types of land forms and geographical features as possible within the limits of the country. The sheets, which are in black and white, are finely printed and leave no ground for criticism as regards reproduction. Surface features of relief are shown by hachures only. This method, excellent as it may be for a general impression, gives no absolute information and precision of detail. It has also the disadvantage of making the map so dark on the steeper slopes that other symbols, and particularly the names, are almost illegible. In fact, if these sheets have any great fault, it is one common to most German maps, namely, the attempt to show more than the scale will allow. In spite of this, however, the collection should prove extremely useful, and might well be imitated for the British Isles by the Ordnance Survey. A pamphlet giving a description of the sheets accompanies the portfolio.
40 Blätter der Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1:100,000 ausgewählt für Unterrichtszwecke.
Erläuterungen bearbeitet von Dr. W. Behrmann. Veröffenlicht von der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. Zweite Auflage. Size 17 in. × 15 in. Handbook, Pp. 62. (Berlin: R. Eisenschmidt, 1921.) Germany, 60 marks; England, 180 marks.
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40 Blätter der Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1:100,000 ausgewählt für Unterrichtszwecke. Nature 109, 548 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109548a0
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