New maps and Atlas

Emin Pasha: his Life and Work. Compiled from his Letters, Journals, Scientific Notes, and from Official Documents, by Georg Schweitzer. With an Introduction by E. W. Felkin, M.D., F.B.S.E. With Portraits, Facsimiles, and Map. Translated from the German. Two vols., demy 8vo. Pp. 330 and Introduction, and 312 and Index. Price 32s.

Through Asia. By Sven Hedin. London : Methuen and Co., 1898. Two vols. Pp. 1278. Price 36s. net.

Pioneering in Formosa. Recollections of Adventures among Mandarins, Wreckers and Head‐hunting Savages. By W. A. Pickering, C.M.G. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1898. Pp. xvi + 283. Price 6s.

Wanderings in Burma. By George W. Bird (Educational Department, Burma). With Illustrations and Maps. Bournemouth : F. J. Bright and Son, 1897. Pp. iv + 410. Price 21s. net.

History of Australia. By G. W. Rusden. Second Edition. In 3 vols. Melbourne and London : Melville, Mullen, and Slade, 1897. Pp. 625, 688, and 521+xcii.

Th. Thoroddsen. Geschichte der Isländischen Geographie. Vorstellungen von Island und seiner Natur und Untersuchungen darüber in alter und neuer Zeit. Autorisierte Uebersetzung von August Gebhardt. Zweiter Band : Die islandische Geographie vom Beginne des 17. bis zur Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1898. Pp. xvi + 383. Price 12 M.

Die Beste der Germanen am Schwaraen Meere. Eine Ethnologische Untersuchung von Dr. Richard Loewe. Halle : Max Niemayer, 1896. Pp. 269. Price M. 8.

Die Weltervorhersage. Eine gemeinverständliche praktische Anleitung zur Wettervorhersage auf Grundlage der Zeitungs‐Wetterkarten und Zeitungs‐Wetterberichte für alle Berufsarten. Im Auftrage der Direction der Deutschen Seewarte bearbeitet von Prof. Dr. W. J. van Bebber, Abtheilungsvorstand der Deutschen Seewarte. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen und 125 Abbildungen. Second Edition. Stuttgart: 1898. Pp. 215 and Index.

Grundzüge der Pflanzengeographie. Von F. Höck. Breslau : F. Hirt, 1897. Pp. 188. 50 Figs. 2 Maps.

Perigrinazioni Anthropologiche e Fisiche. Del Dott. Tito Vignoli. Studio Comparative) tra le Forme Organiche Naturali e le Forme Geometriche Pure. Del Prof. G. V. Schiaparelli. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1898. Pp. 307. Price, L5.

Russian Hosts and English Guests in Central Asia. By J. T. Woolrych Perowne. London : The Scientific Press, Ltd., 1898.     

Atlas of the United States

In an attempt to distinguish between regional physical geography and the Soviet school of landscape science, the author defines the study objects of the two disciplines and provides a useful review of the present state of landscape science in the Soviet Union. Physical geography is said to be concerned with study of the entire geographical shell of the earth, ranging from the troposphere to the bottom of the layer of sedimentary rocks in the earth's crust. Landscape science focuses on the so-called landscape sphere, which is defined as the portion of the geographical shell that lies at or near the surface of the earth and is imbued with present-day life. Although some Soviet geographers treat the term “landscape” as a broad conceptual term (similar to climate), most investigators tend to give the term a classificatory or typological connotation, regarding landscape as the basic unit in a classification of natural geocomplexes. One landscape school focuses on the morphological structure of landscape, the other on model-building of the landscape mechanism.     

The New Zealand Historical Atlas

The New Zealand Historical Atlaswill be published late in 1997. The project is dscribed and placed briefly in the broader contexts of other historical atlases, of recent New Zealand historiography and of critical perspectives on cartography.