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Front MatterSource: Geographical Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr., 1939)Published by: American Geographical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/209940 .

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS PROFESSOR TAYLOR is professor of geography at the University of Toronto. He has

distinguished himself especially by his fruitful application of climatology to the problems of settlement and human adaptation to environment in general. He has written several articles for the Geographical Review and also the chapter " Climatic Relations between Antarctica and Australia" for "Problems of Polar Research" (Amer. Geogr. Soc. Special Publ. No. 7, 1928). Among his works are: "Antarctic Adventure and Research" (1930), "Australia: A Geography Reader" (1931), "Environment and Nation" (I936), " Environment, Race, and Migration" (I937), and "The Geographic Laboratory for North American Universities" (1938). He was awarded the Society's David Livingstone Centenary Medal in 1923.

DR. BENNETT is chief of the Soil Conservation Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He directs a wide variety of activities, including soil-erosion research, soil and water-conservation work on the land throughout the country, land- conservation surveys and surveys to determine the needs of watershed treatment in flood control, and the purchase and development of submarginal land. He is author of "The Soils and Agriculture of the Southern States" (1921) and "The Soils of Cuba" (1928).

DR. CORTESXO was formerly director of the Agency General for the Colonies in Lisbon and vice-president of the Commission of History of the Geographical Society of Lisbon. He has lived in exile since 1932 and is now settled in London. Among his writings are "Subsidios para a hist6ria do descobrimento do Cabo Verde e Guine" (1931), "Os Homens, cartografos portugueses do seculo XVI,, (1932), and " Cartografia e cartografos portugueses dos seculos XV e XVI " (I935).

PROFESSOR JEFFERSON is professor of geography at the State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich. His varied geographical studies include especially investigations into population distribution and climatology in its human aspects. Among his writings are "Man in Europe" (I926), "Exercises in Human Geography" (I930), " Man in the United States" (I933), and three works in the American Geographical Society's Research Series. In 193I he was awarded the Society's Cullum Geo- graphical Medal.

PROFESSOR MEARS iS professor of geography and international trade at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and also the director of the Institute of World Affairs, which meets annually at Riverside, Cal. He is the author of "Modern Turkey" (1924), "Resident Orientals on the American Pacific Coast" (1927), "Greece Today" (1929), and "Maritime Trade of Western United States" (1935). The material for the present article was obtained during his sabbatical year abroad in I937-1938.

DR. MEIGS, of State College, Chico, Cal., is at present teaching at Louisiana State University on a year's leave of absence. He is author of " The Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California" (1935) and has written articles on various aspects of the cultural geography and anthropology of California and Lower California, in both of which areas he has done intensive field work.

Miss DUNLOP, formerly on the staff of the School of Geography of the University of Manchester, is especially interested in problems of plant geography (see her contribution to Dr. Newbigin's "Plant and Animal Geography," 1936) and pre- historic distributions. She is now working on the megalithic provinces of the Irish Sea coasts.

MR. ULLMAN was instructor in economic geography at Washington State College from 1935 to 1937, when he returned to Harvard University to study and to serve as assistant for the academic year 1937-1938. He is now doing graduate work at the University of Chicago.

MR. PLATT is Research Associate at the American Geographical Society. DR. WOOD, lecturer in geography at the University of London, visited the United

States in 1934-1935 as a Rockefeller Travelling Fellow for the study of agricultural geography. He is the author of "Water Plan for the Great Valley of California" in the October, 1938, number of Economic Geography.

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THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW

CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1939 PAGE

Sea to Sahara: Settlement Zones in Eastern Algeria 177

By Griffith Taylor

A Permanent Loss to New England: Soil Erosion Resulting from the Hurricane I96

By Hugh Hammond Bennett

Antonio Pereira and His Map of Circa 1545 205

By A rmando Cortesao

The Law of the Primate City 226

By Mark Jefferson

Postwar Locational Changes of British Industry 233

By Eliot Grinnell Mears

Water Planning in the Great Central Valley, California 252

By Peveril Meigs, 3rd

Lines of Cultural Communication in Bronze Age France 274

By Margaret Dunlop

The Eastern Rhode Island-Massachusetts Boundary Zone 291

By Edward Ullman

Recent Exploration in the Polar Regions . 303

By Raye R. Platt

The Agricultural Value of California Soils 310

By H. J. Wood

Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers . . . 314

American Geographical Society . 319

Geographical Record (listed on the next page) 328

Geographical Reviews (listed on the next page) . . 338

The Society is not responsible for the opinions or statements of writers in the Review

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GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD

NORTH AMERICA

Timber-Line Studies in the Rocky Moun- tains and on Mount Washington ........ 328

Ground-Water Problems n Arizona and Neighboring States. By J. W. Hoover. . . 328

Northers of the North American Tropics. By Raymond E. Crist ................. 329

SOUTH AMERICA

White Colonization in Dutch Guiana. By W. Van Royen ........................ 330

EUROPE

The Growing Town of Ajaccio. 332 London, a Primate City. . 332

AFRTCA

Climate in the South African Maize Triangle. By Edward Ackerman .................. 333

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Meteorite Craters, Real and Pseudo. 334 The Climogram. 335

HUMANT GrOGRAPHY

Plant Migration: The Potato .. .. .. 335

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

Abel Buell's Map of the United States..... 336

OBITUARY

Arthur Clifford Veatch. By William B. Heroy ................................ 336

Dr. Arthur Donaldson Smith.......... .. 337

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

JANE SOAMES. The Coast of Barbary.. ... 338 EVA MATTHEWS SANFORD. The Mediter-

ranean World in Ancient Times................338 ELIZABETHI MONROE. The Mediterranean

in Politics...... 338 The Republics of South America. .. 340 F. A. KIRKPATRICK. Latin America:A Brief

History . 340 CARLETON BEALS. The Coming Struggle

for Latin America.. 340 LEUwIS HANKE, EDIT. Handbook of Latin

American Studies. 340 J. WINSEMIUS. Nieuw-Guinee als kolonisa-

tiegebied voor Europeanen en van Indo- Europeanen. By Karl J. Peizer..... 34I

T. A. TARACOUZIO. Soviets in the Arctic: An Historical, Economic and Political Study of the Soviet Advance into the Arctic. By William H. Hobbs .......... 343

NEVIN M. FENNEMAN. Physiography of Eastern United States. By George W. White ......................... 344

HENRY R. WAGNER. The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. By Armando Cortesho ....... 345

The Discovery of Abyssinia by the Portu- guese in 1520: A Facsimile of the Relation Entitled " Carta das novas que vieram a el Rey nosso Senhor do descobrimento do preste Joham" (Lisbon, 1521). By Dana B. Durand ............. ............... 346

ARMANDO CORTESiO AND HENRY THOMAS. Carta das novas que vieram a el Rei nosso Senhor do descobrimento do preste Joao (Lisboa, 1521). By Dana B. Durand.. .. 346

Hints to Travellers, Volume 2, Organization and Equipment, Scientific Observation, Health, Sickness, and Injury.. . . 348

ROBERT RALSTON CAWLEY. The Voyagers and Elizabethan Drama. By George B. Parks ...... 349

SAMUEL C. CHEW. The Crescent and the Rose: Islam and England during the Renaissance. By George B. Parks . 349

EDWARD GODFREY Cox. A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. By George B. Parks . 349

LEONARDO OLSCHKI. Storia letteraria delle scoperte geografiche: Studi e ricerche. By George B. Parks . 349

HENRY R. WAGNER. The Plains and the Rockies: A Bibliography of Original Nar- ratives of Travel and Adventure, 1800- 1865 . 350

GRIFFITH TAYLOR. Environment, Race.and Migration: Fundamentals of Human Dis- tribution: With Special Sections on Racial Classification; and Settlement in Canada and Australia. By J. 0. M. Broek . 350

VILHIJALMUR STEFANSSON. Unsolved Mys- teries of the Arctic .352

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