John F. Davis

Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes

List of figures List of tables Preface 1: Changing Attitudes 2: Physical Characteristics of Wet Prairies and Bogs 3: Native American Occupation 4: Early Nineteenth-century Views of Wetlands 5: Landowners, Cattlemen, Railroads, and Tenants on Wet Prairies 6: Draining and Agricultural Change on Wet Prairies 7: Occupying, Draining, and Abandoning Northern Bogs and Swamps 8: Utilizing and Conserving Wet Prairies since 1930 9: Changing Wetland Images and Values Bibliography Index

Early Printed Maps of Canada: 1540-1703

printed maps relating to Canada the 1540 Munster map of the Western Hemisphere and ends with maps by Visscher. In all there are 321 entries, each with a standard cartobibliographic description providing the collector, librarian, researcher or archivist with basic information relating to date and whereabouts of the map. Kershaws study contains 11 chapters. Some are chronologically based and others more thematic such as the chapter on the Jesuit influence on Canadian cartography. Other chapters concentrate on specific areas such as Hudson Bay, the Arctic or the Maritimes. A three-page bibliography is followed by seven appendices providing summaries and keys for the various states and editions of, amongst other works, those of Munster, Mercator and Blaeu. The volume is the result of painstaking research and involved visiting numerous libraries. The result is a very clearly presented reference work which is complemented by over 200 reproductions of maps or parts of maps. Inevitably all are in black and white and the need for reduction means that clarity of detail is sometimes lost at the same time this perhaps whets the appetite to study particularly interesting sheets in more detail in an appropriate library. It is a volume to be highly recommended to the collector and map librarian. JOHN F. DAVIS e in similar style of production, are collections of apers from a seriously organized conference, and eal with related disciplines. Is this pure coincidence, are the publish rs endeavouring to build up a ries of this kind? Specialists in oth r related subcts (thematic cartogra hy erhaps?) await with ticipation and interest! Managing geographic information systems. By NANCYJ. OBERMEYER andJEFFREY K. PINTO. London: The Guildford Press, 1994, 226 pp. ?29.95. ISBN 0 898 620058

Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818-1918

Introduction Acknowledgements List of illustrations 1. Science and the Navy 2. The Navy and the Northwest Passage after the Napoleonic Wars: 1817-34 3. Overland to the Arctic, surveyors and naturalists: the Royal Navy and the Hudsons Bay Company 4. Mid-century: the Admiralty manual and the state of Arctic science 5. Constructive rivalry: the Navy and the Hudsons Bay Company: John Franklin and the search expeditions 6. The Arctic crusade: national pride, international affairs, and science 7. Science north: the British Arctic Expedition 1875-6 8. From nationalism to internationalism in science: the International Polar Year 1882-3 9. Science without borders, or scientific territory: imperialism and emergent nationalism before 1918 10. New lands and seas: Vilhjalmur Stefansson: science, territory and government Afterword Bibliography Index.