Index of Geographical Literature

Abstract

IN 1918, the Royal Geographical Society found it necessary on the grounds of economy to abandon the practice hitherto followed of including in each issue of the Geographical Journal a list of additions to the library. These lists from then onwards have been published as separate pamphlets from time to time and distributed to such fellows as expressed a desire to receive them. Up to December 1932, forty-one of these supplements had been published. The entries in these supplements, especially as regards books, atlases and papers, though nominally additions to the catalogues of the Society, in effect comprise a fairly exhaustive list of all geographical literature outside the pages of the Geographical Journal. The Society has now published an “Index to Supplements to the Geographical Journal, Vols. 1–5, Numbers 1–41: 1918–1932” (London: Royal Geographical Society. 16s.: to fellows, 12s. 6cL). The terminal date is chosen as coinciding with the termination of the “Fourth General Index” to the Geographical Journal. The volume also serves as an index to much of the contents of the annual volumes of the Bibliographic Geographique Internationale, for which decennial tables have not recently been issued, the volume numbers in the Index giving the date of publication to within five years.