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EUROPE The Third Statistical Account of Scotland. The County of Dumfries. Edited by G. Houston. 9 × 5¾. Pp. 461. 21 tables. 10 figures. 23 plates. Folding map inside back cover. Glasgow: Collins, 1962. 42s. Reclamation! By T. B. L. Thomson et al. 8½ × 5¾. Pp. 84. 8 photographs. 2 maps. 7 tables. Winchburgh: The Scottish Peat and Land Development Association, 1962. 2s. 6d. Uig: A Hebridean Parish. Parts I & II. By H. A. Moisley and members of The Geographical Field Group. 9¾ × 8. Pp. ii + 56.26 figures. 19 tables. Produced jointly by Department of Geography, The University of Glasgow, and The Geographical Field Group, Nottingham, 1962. New Ways Through the Glens. By A. R. B. Haldane. 8¾ × 5¾. Pp. xvi + 248. Frontispiece. 15 plates. Folding map. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1962. 30s. Plant Communities of the Scottish Highlands’, a study of Scottish mountain, moorland and forest vegetation. By Donald N. McVean and Derek A. Ratcliffe. Monographs of the Nature Conservancy, No. 1. 7¼ × 10¾. Pp. xii + 445. 26 plates. 36 maps. 36 figs. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962. 77s. 6d. Tayside Geology. By F. Walker. 8 × 5. Pp.82. 2 full‐colour plates. 25 plates. 11 figures. 3 tables. Folding map inside back cover. Dundee: Dundee Museum and Art Gallery, 1961. 5s. Highland Landscape: A Survey. By W. H. Murray. 8¾ × 5¾. Pp. 80. Folding map. 21 sketch maps. Edinburgh: The National Trust for Scotland, 1962. 15s. Welsh Rural Communities. By D. Jenkins, E. Jones, T. Jones Hughes and T. M. Owen. Edited by E. Davies and A. D. Rees. 8¾ × 5¾. Pp. xi + 254. 23 figures. 8 plates. Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 1960. 15s. British Towns: A Statistical Study of their Social and Economic Differences. By C. A. Moser and W. Scott. 10 × 6¼. Pp. xii + 169. 3 maps. 4 figures. 33 tables. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. 30s. The Geography of Communications in Great Britain. By J. H. Appleton. 5½ × 8½. Pp. xix + 251. 43 figures. 42 plates. London: Published for the University of Hull by Oxford University Press, 1962. 30s. AUSTRALASIA Australasia. By H. Rees. The New Certificate Geography Series. 9 × 5½. Pp. xv + 264. 55 figures. 38 tables. London: Macdonald & Evans Ltd., 1962. 20s. To the Mountains of the Stars. By L. D. Brongersma and G. F. Venema. 9× 6. Pp. xv + 318. 48 photographs. 23 figures. 2 end‐paper maps. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1962. 42s. ASIA Crossroads: Land and Life in Southwest Asia. By G. B. Cressey. 10 5 7. Pp. xiv + 593. Numerous photographs, maps, diagrams. Chicago: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. $12.00. The Middle East. By W. B. Fisher. 8½ × 5½. Pp. xiii + 557. 2 folding maps. 103 maps and diagrams. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 4th edition revised. 1961. 50s. CLIMATOLOGY The Challenge of the Atmosphere. By O. G. Sutton. 8½ × 5½. Pp. xiii + 228. 48 figures. London: Hutchinson, 1962. 21s. CEOMORPHOLOGY Morphology of the Earth. By Lester King. Pp. xii + 699. 250 text‐figures (three as pocketed maps). 14 plates. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1962. 84s. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY The Geography of Economic Activity. By R. S. Thoman. 9¾ × 8¼. Pp. 602. Numerous photographs, maps, graphs and tables. London: McGraw‐Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1962. 69s. 6d. ATLASES Elementary Atlas. Edited by H. Fullard. 11 × 8¾. Pp. xii (black and white maps and text) + 40 (colour maps) + 12 (index). Tables, graphs etc. inside back cover. London: George Philip & Son Ltd., 100th edition, 1962. 5s. 6d. Haygagan Sovetagan Sotsialistagan Resbubligayi Atlas. (Atlas of the Armenian Geographical Society). 13¼ × 13¾. Pp. viii + 111. Moscow‐Yerevan: The Chief Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography, Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1961. 3r. 50k. ANOTHER MAJOR SOVIET ATLAS GENERAL I.G.Y. The Year of the New Moons. By J. T. Wilson. 8¾ × 5½. Pp. 352. 46 line‐drawings. 19 tables. 55 plates. London: Michael Joseph, 1961. 30s.