This article was originally published with the title “ History of Map making and Topography ” in SA Supplements Vol. 64 No. 1651supp (August 1907), p. 116 doi:10.1038 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ History of Map making and Topography.—II ” in SA Supplements Vol. 64 No. 1652supp (August 1907), p. 132 doi:10.1038 ...

THE subject of map projections is one in which the English language is strangely deficient, a deficiency the more apparent when contrasted with the wealth of Continental literature on the subject.