American Geographical Society Back Matter Source: Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1952) Published by: American Geographical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/211411 . Accessed: 09/05/2014 18:40 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . American Geographical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Geographical Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.109.93 on Fri, 9 May 2014 18:40:45 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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American Geographical Society
Back MatterSource: Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1952)Published by: American Geographical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/211411 .
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IN i852 a group of farsighted business and professional men in New York City, recognizing their growing need for accurate knowledge concerning various parts of the world, created a central clearinghouse for geographical information
the American Geographical Society. The purpose of the founders was to advance the science of geography, by discussion, publication, and lectures; to establish in the chief city of the United States a place where accurate information on every part of the globe could be obtained; and to encourage exploration and research.
The publications of the Society are varied. The Geographical Review, its long- established scientific quarterly, aims at a balanced survey of the geographical world. The monthly periodical, Focus, complements the Review by presenting in popular form background facts and geographical interpretations of current world problems. Books and monographs appear at frequent intervals in the Research and Special Publications series.
The Society's library is one of the largest geographical collections in the world and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. In addition to the usual functions, since I923 it has maintained a Research Catalogue based on a scheme of classifica- tion specially devised for purposes of geographical research, and it issues a monthly bibliographical periodical, Cturrenit Geographical Puiblications. The map collection is pre-eminent in selective and comprehensive world coverage: not only sheet maps but maps contained in books and periodicals are entered in the Map Catalogue.
For many years the Society has promoted studies relating to questions of wide public interest; for example, the white man in the tropics, settlement in the pioneer belts of the world, polar exploration, and the advancement of medical geography. It has compiled and published in 107 sheets the well-known Map of Hispanic America, i : I,OOO,OOO, which has repeatedly proved its usefulness to scientists, businessmen, and government officials. It is also engaged in the development of new techniques and instruments designed to increase the efficiency of surveying and mapping. From time to time five medals are awarded by the Society. A coveted accolade, these medals have been conferred upon such men of stature as Peary, Byrd, Scott, Mackinder, and Theodore Roosevelt.
The qualifications for Fellowship in the Society are an interest in exploration and travel, and in the spread of geographical knowledge; thus its members are recruited from all walks of life. Membership is of eight types. Fellows pay annual dues of $io; Sustaining Fellows, annual dues of $25; and Contributing Felows, annual dues of $Ioo. The other classes of membership are Life Fellows, who contribute $250; Patrons, who contribute $IOOO; Patrons in Perpetuity, who con- tribute $sooo (this membership may be bequeathed); and Benefactors, who con- tribute $So,ooo. There is also an Institutional Membership at $25 a year. Fellows are entitled to the use of the library and map room, to admission to all lectures, to the Geographical Review and to Focus, and to consultation with members of the staff. They may obtain at cost photostat copies of maps and other materials and may purchase the Society's publications at substantial discounts.
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GEOGRAPHY, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS AT THE PARIS CONFERENCE OF 1919. By Charles Seymour. (Bowman Memorial Lectures, Series One.) 28 pp. I95I. $I.50.
NEW YORK WALK BOOK. By Raymond H. Torrey, Frank Place, Jr., and Robert L. Dickinson. Third edition, revised under the sponsorship of the New York- NewJersey Trail Conference. 347 pp.; maps and pen sketches. I95I. $3.50.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY OF PETROLEUM. Edited by Wallace E. Pratt and Dorothy Good. 464 pp.; maps, diagrams, and photographs. I950. $7.50.
A GERMAN AND ENGLISH GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS. By Eric Fischer and Francis E. Elliott. ii8 pp. I950. $3.00.
THE COAST OF NORTHEAST GREENLAND: With Hydrographic Studies in the Greenland Sea: The Louise A. Boyd Arctic Expeditions of I937 and I938. By Louise A. Boyd and others. 339 pp.; maps, diagrams, and photographs. Ac- companying case contains i2 plates (maps and panoramas). I948. $6.oo.
AIDS TO GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: Bibliographies, Periodicals, Atlases, Gazetteers and Other Reference Books. By John Kirtland Wright and the late Elizabeth T. Platt. 33I pp.; index. I947. $4.50.
PIONEER SETTLEMENT IN THE ASIATIC TROPICS: Studies in Land Utilization and Agricultural Colonization in Southeastern Asia. By Karl J. Pelzer. z88 pp.; maps, diagrams, and photographs. I945. $5.00.
MAP OF HISPANIC AMERICA i: i,ooo,ooo. IO7 sheets. I922-I945. $2.5o per sheet.
MAP OF THE AMERICAS I: 5,000,000. s sheets: (i) Northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland; (2) United States, Southern Canada; (3) Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies; (4) South America, Sheet North; (s) South America, Sheet South. I942-I948. $4.00 per sheet.
THE WORLD. Equatorial scale I: 30,000,000. 57 x 35 inches. General reference map with relief in color. Prepared for the United States Department of State. $I.00.
CURRENT GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS: Additions to the Research Catalogue of the American Geographical Society. Published monthly except July and August. $6.5o a year.
FOCUS. Geographical interpretations of current world problems. Published monthly except July and August. $I.oo a year.
A complete list of the Society's publications may be had upon request
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GEOGRAPHY, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS AT THE PARIS CONFERENCE OF 1919. By Charles Seymour. (Bowman Memorial Lectures, Series One.) 28 pp. 195I. $I.50.
NEW YORK WALK BOOK. By Raymond H. Torrey, Frank Place,Jr., and Robert L. Dickinison. Third edition, revised under the sponsorship of the New York- NewJersey Trail Conference. 347 pp.; maps and pen sketches. 195I. $3.50.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY OF PETROLEUM. Edited by Wallace E. Pratt and Dorothy Good. 464 pp.; maps, diagrams, and photographs. I950. $7.50.
A GERMAN AND ENGLISH GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS. By Eric Fischer and Francis E. Elliott. ii8 pp. i950. $3.00.
THE COAST OF NORTHEAST GREENLAND: With Hydrographic Studies in the Greenland Sea: The Louise A. Boyd Arctic Expeditions of I937 and I938.
By Louiise A. Boyd and others. 339 pp.; maps, diagrams, and photographs. Ac- companying case contains I2 plates (maps and panoramas). I948. $6.oo.
AIDS TO GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: Bibliographies, Periodicals, Atlases, Gazetteers and Other Reference Books. By John Kirtland Wright and the late Elizabeth T. Platt. 33I pp.; index. I947. $4.50.
PIONEER SETTLEMENT IN THE ASIATIC TROPICS: Studies in Land Utilization and Agricultural Colonization in Southeastern Asia. By Karl J. Peizer. 288 pp.; maps, diagrams, and photographs. I945. $5.00.
MAP OF HISPANIC AMERICA I: I,000,000. I07 sheets. I922-I945. $2.50 per sheet.
MAP OF THE AMERICAS I: 5,000,000. 5 sheets: (i) Northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland; (2) United States, Southern Canada; (3) Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies; (4) South America, Sheet North; (5) South America, Sheet South. I942-I948. $4.00 per sheet.
THE WORLD. Equatorial scale I: 30,000,000. 57 x 35 inches. General reference map with relief in color. Prepared for the United States Department of State. $I.00.
CURRENT GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS: Additions to the Research Catalogue of the American Geographical Society. Published monthly except July and August. $6.50 a year.
FOCUS. Geographical interpretations of current world problems. Published monthly except July and August. $i.oo a year.
A complete list of the Society's publications may be had upon request
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