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THE report of the committee appointed by the British Association in 1938 to prepare a scheme for a projected National Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was presented to the Association at the Dundee mooting and contains provisional details of the format and contents of such an atlas. “The proposed atlas,” the report runs, “aims at a strictly objective and scientific presentation of the natural conditions, natural resources and economic development of the land (and adjacent seas), of the history and pre-history of the country, and of the distributions, occupations, movement and social conditions of the population.” To this very comprehensive programme the provise must be added “in so far as they provide suitable material for cartographic exposition”, since it is not intended that there shall be any accompanying text to the maps. Such a work necessarily involves the collaboration of scientific workers in very different fields, and six sections of the Association were represented on the reporting committee, which sat under the chairmanship of Prof. E. G. R. Taylor (Section E).
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A National Atlas of Great Britain. Nature 144, 702 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144702a0
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