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EUROPE Roman and Native in North Britain. Edited by I. A. Richmond. 6½×9¼. Pp.X+174. 8 Plates. 8 Maps. Edinburgh: Nelson, 1958, 18s. The Third Statistical Account of Scotland, Volume 5, The City of Glasgow. Edited by J. Cunnison and J. B. S. Gilfillan. 8½×5½. Pp.1008. 38 Figs. 24 Plates and folding map at back. Glasgow: Collins, 1958, 50s. L'Europe du Nord et du Nord‐Ouest, Tome II, La Finlande et les Pays Scandinaves. By G. Chabot, 7¼×9¼. Pp.371. 68 Figs. 6 Plates. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Orbis Series), 1958, 1800Frs. North‐West Europe. By P. J. Powrie and A. J. Mansfield. 5½×7½. Pp.528. 71 Figs. 17 Plates. London: Harrap, 1959, 17s. 6d. Ricerche sulle dimore rurali in Italia. Vol. 19. By Giuseppe Nangeroni and Roberto Pracchi. La casa rurale nella montagna lombarda. II. Settore sud‐orientale (G. Nangeroni). 10×7. Pp.220. 32 Plates. 94 Figs. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1958, Lire 2,500. For the Consiglie Nazionale delle Ricerche. A Geography of Italy. By D. S. Walker. Pp.256, 35 Photos. 33 Maps and diagrams. London: Methuen, 1958, 30s. Spain; A Geographical Background. By W. B. Fisher and H. Bowen‐Jones. 7½×5. Pp. VIII + 222. 8 Plates and 18 maps. London: Christophers, 1958, 10s. 6d. Portrait of Spain. By Bert Boger. 11×9. Pp.140. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1958, 45s. AFRICA African Economic Development. By W. A. Hance. 8½×5½. Pp. X+307. 12 tables and 7 maps. 2 end‐paper maps. London: Oxford University Press, for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1958, 30s. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND They came to New Zealand. An account of New Zealand from the earliest times to the middle nineteenth century. By Marjorie Appleton. 8½×5½. Pp.318. 35 Plates. 3 Maps. London: Methuen, 1958, 30s. The Sixth Continent. The discovery and exploration of Australia. By Arthur Scholes. 8½×5½. Pp.183 15 Plates. 2 End‐paper maps. London: Allen and Unwin, 1958, 21s. Advanced Level Geography, Book I, Australia and New Zealand, Part I, Australia, Part II, New Zealand. By D. C. Money 8½×5½. Part I: Pp.296. 100 Figs. 25 Plates and 44 Tables. Part II: Pp.144. 39 Figs. 18 Plates and 21 Tables. London: University Tutorial Press, 1958; Part I, 15s. Part II, 8s. ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC The Polar Regions in their relation to human affairs: Bowman Memorial Lecture No. 4. By L. M. Gould. 8¾×5¾. Pp.54. New York: Am. Geog. Soc, 1958. $3.50. The Russians in the Arctic: Aspects of Soviet exploration and exploitation of the Far North 1937–57. By Terence Armstrong. 8¼×5½. Pp.175. 20 illustrations, 6 maps and end‐paper map. London: Methuen, 1958, 22s. 6d. GEOMORPHOLOGY Coastal and Submarine Morphology. By Andre Guilcher, translated into English by B. W. Sparks and the Rev. R. H. W. Kneese. 6×8¼. 274 pages. 8 Plates. 40 Figs. London: Methuen, 1958, 30s. Landscape From the Air. By F. J. Monkhouse. 7½×9½. Pp.IX+52. London: Cambridge University Press. 1959, 8s. METEOROLOGY Farming Weather. By L. P. Smith. 8×5½. Pp. IX+208. 14 Plates. 35 Figs. Edinburgh: Nelson, 1958, 15s. MAPS AND ATLASES Westermanns Hausatlas. Maps by C. Diercke and R. Dehmel, text by W. Tietze. 9×13⅛. Pp.184+54 (index). 423 maps, 134 colour photographs. Braunschweig: Georg Westermann Verlag, 1958, DM 39.80. Guide to the Manuscript Maps in the William L. Clements Library, compiled by Christian Brun. 9×6”. Pp. XIII+208. 5 illustrations. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1959. GENERAL Geography of World Affairs. By J. P. Cole. 7×4½. Pp.348. 45 Figs. Harmonds‐worth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1959, 3s. 6d. Journeyman Taylor; the education of a scientist. By T. Griffith Taylor, abr., and ed., by A. A. Macgregor. 8¾×5½. Pp.352. Plates and maps. London: Hale, 1958, 25s. The Atlantic: a history of an ocean. By Leonard Outhwaite. 8½×5½. Pp.479, 5 Maps. 5 Drawings. End‐paper maps. London: Constable & Co., 1958, 30s.