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Conflict and Change in the Countryside. By Guy M. Robinson, 237 × 162 mm, xxvi + 482 pp, Belhaven, London, 1990, pbk, ISBN 1–85293–044–6, £14.95.

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: The County of West Lothian. Edited by Patrick Cadell, 230 × 145 mm, 377 pp, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1992, hbk, £37.50.

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: The County of Roxburgh. Edited by John Herdman, 230 × 145 mm, 368 pp, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1992, hbk, £37.50.     

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EUROPE.

Borrowstounness and District. By Thomas James Salmon. Edinburgh and London: William Hodge and Company, 1913. Price 6s. net.

Handbook of Baltic and White Sea Loading Ports, including Denmark. Revised Edition. By J. F. Myhre. London: William Rider and Son, 1913. Trice 21s. net.

Bennett's Handbook for Travellers in Norway. Thitteenth Edition, revised. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913. Price 2s. 6d.

Sketches of North and West Ireland. By Mary Bedsdale Wilson. Illustrated by Jessie S. Wilson. London: Arthur Stockwell, 1913. Price 2s. net.

Mittelmeerbilder. Von Dr. Theobald Fischer. Zweite Auflage besorgt von Dr. Alfred Rühl. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1913. Price 7 marks.

Spain and Portugal: Handbook for Travellers. By Karl Baedeker. Fourth Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. Price 15s.

Naples and Environs: Capri. Grieben's Guide‐Books. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913. Price 1s. 6d.

Photographic Supplement to Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland. Arranged and edited by Horace B. Woodwakd, F.R.S., F.G.S. London: Edward Stanford, 1913. Price 4s. net.

The Cathedrals of Southern France. By T. Francis Bumpus. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1913. Price 6s. net.

AFRICA.

The Land of Footprints. By Stewart Edward White, F.R.G.S. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. Price 2s. net.

Les Sociétés Primitives de l'Afrique Equatoriale. With 9 Figures, 18 Plates, and Map. By Dr. Ad. Cureau. Paris: Armand Colin, 1912. Price 6 fr.

AMERICA.

The Southland of North America. By George Palmer Putnam. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1913. Price 82.50 net.

Colombia. By Phanor James Eder. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. Price 10s. 6d. net.

Twentieth‐Century Jamaica. By H. G. De Lisser. Kingston: The Jamaica Times, 1913.

POLAR.

Le Monde Polaire, par Otto Nordenskjöld. Traduit du Suédois par Geoeges Parmentier et Maurice Zimmermann. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1913. Prix 5fr.

GENERAL.

Animal Geography. By Marion I. Newbigin, D.Sc. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913. Price 4s. 6d.

Making the most of the Land. By James Long. London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Price 5s. net.

The “Welcome” Photographic Exposure Record and Diary, 1914. London: Borroughs, Wellcome and Co. Price 1s.

“The Car” Road‐Book and Guide. An Encyclopædia of Motoring. Edited and revised by Lord Montagu. London: The Car Illustrated, Ltd., 1913. Price 12s. 6d. net.

Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, Bathing and Health Resorts of the World. Edited by Eustace Reynolds Bell. London: Henry Blacklock and Co., 1913. Price 6s. net.

EDUCATIONAL.

Dent's Practical Notebooks of Regional Geography. By Horace Piggott and Robert Finch. Book i. The Americas; ii. Asia; ii. Africa; iv. The British Empire in America and Asia. London: Dent and Sons, 1913. Price 6d. net each.

Questions and Exercises in Geography. By R. J. Finch, F.R.G.S. London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1913. Price 2s. 6d. net.

A Comparative Geography of the Six Continents. By Ellis W. Heaton, B.Sc., F.G.S. London: Ealph Holland and Co., 1913. Price 1s. 9d, net.

The British Empire with its World Setting. By J. B. Reynolds, B.A. London: A. and C. Black, 1913. Price 1s. 4d.     

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The supply of statistics continues to expand sharply as new research turns up great quantities of valuable material. A need may be demonstrated for a device to make possible the storage of related statistical matters in a spatially ordered set of patterns on maps. A sequence of these maps would then be readily available for reference purpose.

Four aims suggest themselves in such an exercise. First, there should be good unit area comparability or a method to show the varying base size of most statistical reporting units. Second, a multi‐component, multi‐dimensional representation of the data is essential. Third, a comparison of input and output data patterns should be possible. Fourth, there must be general retrievability of the statistical sources.

A large amount of annual census data in Scotland has provided the main raw material for the development of the number patterns. In this instance the relationship of grain crops to the regularly croppable area is used as the subject. Any relateable populations may be prepared and stored in the same way. The result is a valuable store of reference material which reveals the major patterns over a sequence of years. No decoding is necessary and the approach lends itself to machine scribing on maps.