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Volume InformationSource: Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan., 1952), pp. i-viPublished by: American Geographical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/211245 .
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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 Revielv, its long- established scientific quarterly, aims at a balanced survey of the geographical world. The monthly periodical, Focus, complements the Revietw by presenting in popular form background facts and geographical interpretations of cLurrent 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 1923 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, Curreuit Geographical Publications. 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 Cataloguie.
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 I07 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 Fellows, annual dues of $ioo. The other classes of membership are Life Fellows, who contribute $25o; Patrons, who contribute $iooo; Patrons in Perpetuity, who con- tribute $5ooo (this membership may be bequeathed); and Benefactors, who con- tribute $so,ooo. There is also a Library 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 Reviewv 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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Expanding Horizons in a Shrinking World. . G. H. T. K. 1-3 Protean Geography ..J. K. W. 175-176 The Comity of the Geographical-Minded. G. H. T. K. 333-334 The Uses of Geography.. G. H. T. K. 507-509
EDITORIALS
Cheerful Yesterdays-Confident Tomorrows .W. B. F. 4-6 Featured Player .W. B. F. 177-178 Excursion Into America. W. B. F. 335-336 "Our Contributors" .W. B. F. 509-510
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES
NORTH AMERICA
CURRY, LESLIE. Climate and Economic Life: A New Approach: With Examples from the United States. (4 diagrams) .367-383
GREGOR, HOWARD F. The Southern California Water Problem in the Oxnard Area. (6 maps, I diagram, 4 photographs) .16-36
HARE, F. KENNETH. The Labrador Frontier. (4 maps, 7 photographs) .405-424 HIGBEE, EDWARD C. The Three Earths of New England. . . .. . 425-438 JARCHO, SAUL AND ANASTASIA VAN BURKALOW. A Geographical Study of "Swim-
mers' Itch" in the United States and Canada. (3 maps) .212-226 JENNESS, JOHN L. Erosive Forces in the Physiography of Western Arctic Canada. (I
map, 4 photographs) .238-252 MEIGS, PEVERIL. Water Problems in the United States. (8 maps, I diagram) . . 346-366 PRUNTY, MERLE, JR. Land Occupance in the Southeast: Landmarks and Forecast.
(2 maps, 6 photographs) .439-461 RODGERS, ALLAN. Industrial Inertia-A Major Factor in the Location of the Steel
Industry in the United States. (4 maps) . . .56-66 STONE, KIRK H. Populating Alaska: The United States Phase. (9 maps, I diagram) 384-404 THOMAN, RICHARD S. Foreign Trade Zones in the United States. (6 sketch mnaps in I
figure, 6 photographs) ..631-645 VAN CLEEF, EUGENE. Finnish Settlement in Canada. (5 maps, 2 diagrams, 8 photo-
graphs) . . ..253-266 ZIERER, CLIFFORD M. Tourism and Recreation in the West. (7 photographs) . . . 462-481
SOUTH AMERICA
MURPHY, ROBERT CUSHMAN. Bird Islands of Venezuela. (1 nmap, 16 photographs [8 in color]) .551-561
PARSONS, JAMES J. The Settlement of the Sinui Valley of Colombia. (1 map, 6 photo- graphs) .67-86
RUDOLPH, WILLIAM E. Sulphur in Chile. (1 map, 21 photographs) .562-590
EUROPE
FOSTER, GEORGE M. The Feixes of Ibiza. (2 maps, I diagramn, 4 photographs) . 227-237 LEIGHLY, JOHN. Population and Settlement: Some Recent Swedish Studies. . . 134-137
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KIMBLE, GEORGE H. T. Tropical Africa in Transition. (15 photographs [7 in color]) 7-15 THOMAS, BENJAMIN E. Modern Trans-Saharan Routes. (3 maps, 7 photographs) . 267-282
ASIA
BRUSH, JOHN E. The Iron and Steel Industry in India. (3 maps, 2 diagrams) . . 37-55 ERINK, SIRRI AND NECDET TUNqDILEK. The Agricultural Regions of Turkey. (16
imaps in 3jigures, 12 photographs) .179-203 GINSBURG, NORTON S. China's Changing Political Geography. (2 iaps) . . . 102-117
POLAR REGIONS
FIELD, W. O., JR., AND CALVIN J. HEUSSER. Glaciers-Historians of Climate. (15 photographs [8 in color]) .337-345
HARRIS, CHAUNCY D. Geographical Literature on the Soviet Union: A Discussion 615-627 PRESCOTT, J. A., JOYCE A. COLLINS, AND G. R. SHIRPURKAR. The Comparative
Climatology of Australia and Argentina. (30 maps in 8 figures, 6 diagrams in 2
figures) .118-133 SHIMKIN, DEMITRI B. Economic Regionalization in the Soviet Union. (3 maps) . 591-614 TREMBLAY, JEAN PAUL. Water and Waterways in the Levant. (14 photographs [7 in
color]) .204-211
GENERAL
BROEK, JAN 0. M. Leo Heinrich Waibel: An Appreciation. .287-292 HIRVONEN, R. A. Purposes and Principles of Adjustments of Observations 646-650 JONES, STEPHEN B. The Enjoyment of Geography . .543-550 MAY, JACQUES M. Map of the World Distribution of Dengue and Yellow Fever.
(Insert map) ..283-286 MAY, JACQUES M. Map of the World Distribution of Helminthiases. (Insert map) 98-101 MAY, JACQUES M. Map of the World Distribution of Plague. (Insert map) 628-630 WRIGHT, JOHN K. W. L. G. Joerg. (1 photograph) .482-488 WRIGLEY, GLADYS M. Adventures in Serendipity: Thirty Years of the "Geographical
Review" .511-542
DEPARTMENTS
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY .293-299 489-505 GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD .138-152,300-314,651-662 GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS .153-174,315-332,663-680
Separate Illustrations
[Map of] World Distribution of Dengue and Yellow Fever. (7 maps in 5 figures) 1: 60,000,000 and 1: 40,000,000, with 1 inset map. Pl. 5, opp. P. 284
[Map of] World Distribution of Helminthiases. 1: 50,000,000, with 14 inset maps P1. 4, opp. p. 98
[Map of] World Distribution of Plague. (5 maps) 1: 30,000,000 and 1: 90,000,000 PI. 6, opp. p. 628
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