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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.     

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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.

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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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EUROPE.

Scotland Picturesque and Traditional. By Geo. Eyre‐Todd. Stirling : Eneas Mackay, 1931. Price 5s.

In the Highlands. By Seton Gordon. London : Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

A Last Voyage to St. Kilda. By Alasdair Alpin Macgregor. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

Rambles in Dorset. By J. H. Wade. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

Everyday Life in Old Scotland. By J. F. Geant. Part I.: To 1603. Part II.: 1603–1707. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 2s. 6d. each Part.

So You ‘re Going to Spain. By Clara E. Laughlin. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., n.d. Price 10s. 6d.

Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily. By David Randall‐MacIver. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

Modern Germanies. By Cicely Hamilton. London and Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

The Austrian Tyrol. By Ian F. D. Morrow. London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 1931. Price 15s.

Austria. By J. D. Newth. London : A. and C. Black Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

An Agricultural Atlas of Scotland. By H. J. Wood. London : George Gill and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 3s. 6d.

Les Paysages Catalans. Par Marcel Chevalier. Paris : Albert Blanchard, 1929. Prix 30 francs.

Kalabrien. Von Helmuth Kanter. Hamburg : Friederichsen, de Gruyter und Co., 1930.

Peninsular Europe. By L. W. Lyde, M.A. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 10s. 6d. net.

The Baltic States : Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. By Hebe Spaull. London : A. and C. Black Ltd., 1931. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Skara Brae : A Pictish Village in Orkney. By V. Gordon Childe, B.Litt., Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in Edinburgh University, author of The Most Ancient East, The Aryans, The Dawn of European Civilisation, etc. With chapters by Professor T. H. Bryce, F.R.S., and Professor D. M. S. Watson, F.R.S. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 31s. 6d.

A foot in Portugal. By John Gibbons. London : George Newnes Ltd., n.d. Price 7s. 6d.

Wanderings in Greece. By F. S. Burnell. London : Edward Arnold and Co., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

Wanderings. By Arthur Symons. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 8s. 6d.

ASIA.

Life in the Chinese Church. By T. Ralph Morton. London : The Student Christian Movement Press. Price 1s. 6d. net.

Romantic Ceylon : Its History, Legend, and Story. By R. H. Bassett. London : Cecil Palmer, 1929. Price 7s. 6d.

The People of the Leaves. By Vivian Meik. London: Philip Allan and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

AFRICA.

A Wayfarer in North Africa : Tunisia and Algiers. By Fletcher Allen. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

Early Days in East Africa. By the late Sir Frederick Jackson. London : Edward Arnold and Co., 1930. Price 21s.

A Vagabond in Barbary. By Harry L. Foster. Illustrated. London : John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1930. Price 12s. 6d. net.

Through Unknown Africa, By William Jaspert. Translated by Agnes Platt. London : Jarrolds Ltd. Price 12s. 6d. net.

Jungle Ways. By William B. Seabrook. London : Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 10s. 6d. net.

AMERICA.

Land of Wonder and Fear. By F. A. Mitchell‐Hedges. London : Duckworth and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 18s.

A Yankee in Patagonia. Edward Chace: His Thirty Years There, 1898–1928. By Robert and Katharine Barrett. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

POLAR.

South Georgia. By L. H. Matthews. Bristol: J. Wright and Sons. London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1931. Price 15s. net.

GENERAL.

A Short History of British Expansion. By James A. Williamson. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. Second Edition, 1930. Two vols. Price 15s. each.

Plant Life through the Ages : A Geological and Botanical Retrospect. By A. C. : Seward. Cambridge : University Press, 1931. Price 30s.

Memoirs of a Ceylon Planter's Travels. By Mountsteven Bremer. London : Rivington and Co., 1930. Price 10s. 6d.

The World Mapped : Being a Short History of Attempts to Map the World from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. By I. J. Curnow, B.A., Ph.D. (Lond.). London : Sifton Praed and Co., 1930. Price 5s.

Geographische Grundlagen der Geschichte. Von Hugo Hassinger. Freiburg im Breisgau : Herder und Co., 1931. Preis M. 10.50.

Climatology. By A. Austin Miller. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d. net.

Climate. By W. G. Kendkew. Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1930. Price 15s.

Raw Materials of Commerce. By J. Henry Vanstone. Two vols. London : Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1929. Price 40s. net.

Blood and Oil in the Orient. By Essad Bey. Translated from the German by Elsa Talmey. London : Nash and Grayson Ltd., 1930. Price 18s. net.

EDUCATIONAL.

South America. By Edward V. Lane. (Harrap's New Geographical Series.) London : George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 3s.

Social and Economic Geography. By L. Brettle, M.A., B.Litt., F.R.G.S. London : Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 10s. 6d. net.

Land Forms and Life. By C. C. Carter. London : Christophers, 1931. Price 6s.     

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Itinerant merchants have been an integral part of world trade since at least the time of the earliest Silk Route from China to the West. Today a group of traders from Nepal maintain this tradition. Today their travel is by economy jet and inexpensive train. The countries involved are primarily thos6 with historic ties to the mercenary Ghurka forces under the British. The traders are well organized and limited to a few‐families, primarily from the Pokhara Valley in Nepal. Their goods begin with products from Nepal and Tibet, but they also move goods gathered along their route. They represent a charming anomaly in the modern world, a touch of the old Asia.