Report of the progress of the ordnance survey

The Great Frozen Land : Narrative of a Winter Journey across the Tundras, and a Sojourn among the Samoyads. By Feed. George Jackson, F.E.G.S., leader of the Jackson‐Harmsworth Polar Expedition. Edited from his Journals by Arthur Montefiore. London : Macmillan and Co., 1895. With 46 Illustrations and 3 Maps. Pp. xviii + 297. Price 15s. net.

A Vagabond in Spain. By C. Bogue Luffmann. London : John Murray, 1895. Pp. xv+ 345.

Vikings of To‐day ; or, Life and Medical Work among the Fishermen of Labrador. By Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.E.O.S.E., L.R.C.P. Illustrated from original photographs. London: Marshall Bros., 1895. Pp. xvi + 240. Price 3s. 6d.

Five Years in Canada. By W. M. Elkington. London : Whittaker and Co.; Eugby : Geo. E. Over, 1895. Pp. 138. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes. By Major C. S. Cumberland. With Frontispiece, Map, and Index. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Pp.274.

Au Congo: Comment les Noirs travaillent. Par le Lieutenant Lemaire (Ch.). Bruxelles : Imprimerie Scientifique, 1895. Pp. 139.

Nord‐Kamerun. Schilderung der im Auftrage des Auswärtigen Amtes zur Erschliessung des nördlichen Hinterlandes von Kamerun während der Jahre 1886–1892 unternommenen Reisen. Von Eugen Zintgraff. Berlin : Verlag von Gebrüder Paetel, 1895. Pp. ix + 468.

Vedic India, as embodied principally in the Big‐Veda. By Zénaïde A: Ragozin, Member of the Eoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. etc. ; Author of “The Story of Chaldæa,” “The Story of Assyria,” “The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia,” etc. London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, mdcccxcv. Pp. xii+457. Price 5s.

Glimpses of the Eastern Archipelago: Ethnographical, Geographical, Historical. Translated from the Dutch by Geo. G. Batten. Pp. 137.

Daendels—Raffles: A Dissertation on the two Celebrated Governors of Java. By M. L. van Deventer. Translated from the Indische Gids by Geo. G. Batten. London : E. Marlborough and Co., n.d. Pp. 128.

Bogen wad Pfeil in Central‐Brasilien. Ethnographische Studie von Dr. Herrmann Meter. Leipzig: Druck vom Bibliographischen Institut, n.d. Pp. vi + 54.

Anthropogeographische Beiträge, Zur Gebirgskunde, vorzüglich Beobachtungen über Hohengrenzen und Hohengürtel. Herausgegeben im. Auftrage des Vereins fur Erkunde und der Carl Ritter‐Stiftung zu Leipzig. Von Friedrich Ratzel. Mit zehn Karten und zahlreichen Illustrationen. Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker u. Humblot, 1895. Pp. 362.

Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks under the Microscope. By Alfred Harker, M.A., F.G.S. (Cambridge Natural Science Manuals.) Cambridge : University Press, 1895. Pp. viii + 306. Price 7s. 6d.

Ritters Geographisch‐Statistisches Lexikon. Erster Band. A—K. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1895. Pp. 1064. Eighth edition. Edited by Jons. Penzler. Pp. 1064.

A New Geography on the Comparative Method. With Maps and Diagrams. By J. M. D. Meiklejohn, M.A., Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St. Andrews, etc. Thirteenth Edition— Seventieth Thousand, Revised and Corrected. London : Alfred M. Holden, 1895. Pp. 1 + 504. Price 4s. 6d.

London in 1895. Originally Compiled by Herbert Fry. London : W. H. Allen and Co. Pp. 252. Price 1s.

Horne's Guide to Whitby.’ Whitby: Horne and Son, Gazette Office, 1895. Pp. 136. Price: Paper, 6d; Cloth, with Maps, 1s.

Illustrated Guide to Perthshire and Central Scotland. By Thomas Hunter. Perth : Thomas Hunter, 1895. Pp. 15 + 262.

Deeside. By Alex. Inkson M'Connochie. Aberdeen : Lewis Smith and Son, 1895. Pp. 157. Price, Boards, 1s.; Cloth, 2s.

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An Oriental Holiday. Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Handbook for the Tourist. By Henri Moser. Drawings by Georges Scott. London: 14 Cockspur Street, 1895. Pp. 76.

The Guide, to South Africa for the Use of Tourists, Sportsmen, Invalids, and Settlers. Edited annually by A. Samler Brown and G. Gordon Brown, London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. ; Cape Town : J. C. Juta and Co.. 1895. Pp. xlii + 354. Price 2s. 6d.

Guides of the Swedish Tourists Club, No. 8. Swedish Scenery and Places of Interest. Some Hints for Visitors to the “Land of the Midnight Sun.” Second edition. Stockholm : Wahlström and Widstrand, 1894. 14 Illustrations. Pp. 56.

Wegweiser des Schwedischen Touristenvereins, No. 10. Stockholm, die Havptstadt Schwedens. Stockholm : Wahlström and Widstrand. Leipsig : K. F. Koehler. With 60 Illustrations. Pp. 147.     

A brief description of the ordnance survey,and some notes on the advantages of a topographical survey of South Africa

Early maps of Scotland at a national scale provide historical geographers with an important source of data. One of the most important of these maps but still relatively unexploited and poorly understood is the Military Survey of Scotland or Roy Map. Examination is made here of its two versions, the Protracted Copy and the Fair Copy, to check the veracity of the draughtsmen who produced the latter and most commonly consulted version. An examination is made by focussing on two areas of Fife.     

Sweep widths and the detection of artifacts in archaeological survey

In many parts of the world, one of the principal means for discovering archaeological resources is terrestrial archaeological survey for small scatters of generally unobtrusive artifacts on the surface. Yet archaeologists have expended relatively little research on the factors that affect detection of such artifacts or the impacts they have on the reliability of surveys. We employ mock survey of plowed fields ‘seeded’ with a variety of artifacts in order to evaluate the effectiveness of pedestrian survey (fieldwalking) with respect to search time and transect spacing. Our results confirm theoretical expectations about the diminishing returns on increases of search effort, while also demonstrating variation in ‘sweep widths’ for different artifact types and surveyor speed and the effects of walking toward or away from the sun. Preliminary results have implications for the most efficient spacing of survey transects as well as the evaluation of completed surveys, since some artifact types have extremely low probabilities of detection even at high densities of search effort.     

A survey of the charcoal-fuelled ironworking industries of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire

Abstract

A project carried out in 2001 recorded the most important surviving remains of charcoal-fuelled blast furnaces and forges in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, and reviewed the documentary evidence relating to them. The earliest sites date to the end of the 16th and the early 17th century. The furnaces at Ponthenri (Carmarthenshire) and Blackpool (Pembrokeshire) and the forges at Llandyfan (Carmarthenshire) were surveyed. One furnace site (either Ponthenri or Pontiets) may retain below-ground evidence for experiments in coke smelting by Hugh Grundy in 1620, giving it considerable national importance. These monuments are little known; attention is drawn to their steadily deteriorating condition.     

Beyond the identification of formation processes: Behavioral inference based on traces left by cultural formation processes

Formation processes are generally considered as a negative factor for behavioral inference in archaeology. The concept of formation processes, however, can potentially be far more useful for behavioral inference in archaeology than simply identifying spurious variability in the archaeological record. Physical traces left by cultural formation processes convey a certain kind of behavioral information which may not be otherwise available. Variables related to site occupation, such as the occupation span, the number of occupation episodes, and the location of activities, can be inferred from characteristics of refuse deposits, or refuse structure.     

学生教育面面观

班级管理是一门艺术,它实际表现为对人的管理。学生形形色色,性格迥异,如何与学生融洽相处,如何有效地管理班级,这是每一个班主任都积极研究探索的问题。笔者通过自己的工作实践,结合教育案例,总结出班主任在日常管理过程中应该多和学生沟通,双方相互尊重并取得信任,只有这样才能建立良好的师生关系,才能真正有效地实施班级管理。