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THIS book has a melancholy interest, as the author, Sir Herbert George Fordham, has died since its publication, only this year. Sir George was a well-known map collector, and, we believe, had one of the finest collection of old maps in England, which he exhibited on several occasions, notably at the Southampton meeting of the British Association. A list of his works on the subject of ancient maps and cartography shows how widely and deeply he had studied the subject. As a historian of maps he will be a great loss.
Some Notable Surveyors and Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and their Work: a Study in the History of Cartography.
By Sir Herbert George Fordham. Pp. xii + 99 + 4 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1929.) 6s. net.
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C., H. Geology and Geography. Nature 124, 540 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124540a0
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