Synonyms for statistical map are cartogram, map chart.

GENERAL REFERENCES

Paullin, Charles O., Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, Carnegie Institute of Washington and American Geographical Society of New York, 1932

Raisz, Erwin, General Cartography, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York City, 1938

Encyclopedia Americana.

Outline Sketch of Borgia Map of the Fifteenth Century, A. D.

1. Man's earliest maps consisted of simple drawings. The map shown above is in a more

advanced form.

2. Long before the Christian era, people living in Egypt and Mesopotamia constructed

maps. For an early Mesopotamian map, see 170.

GRAPHIC PRESENTATION

Encyclopedia Americana.

Maps Drawn on Orthographic and S+ereographic Projection on the Plane of a Horizon,

1. When the discovery was made that the earth was round, map-makers were faced with

the problem of how to present on a plane a picture which was best presented by a globe.

2. This involved transforming the lines of latitude and longitude on the earth into planer

magnitudes.

3. The projections above illustrate two of many solutions to this problem.

BASE MAPS

Base maps to be used for presenting quantitative data may be secured from the following companies:

American Map Co., New York, N. Y.

Educational Exhibition Co., Providence, R. I.

C. S. Hammond ^^ Co., New York, N. Y.

Rand-McNally Co., New York, Chicago, Washington, D. C, San Francisco, and Los Angeles

Maps may be ordered in many different forms: paper; clothmounted; sized surface; washable surface; wooden rollers; springroller case; pin-map board; cork carpet for pins; framed and braced.