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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. New Maps. New Maps. and the tracks of cyclones. The facts graphically shown on the map-sheets are summarized and supplemented with other information in; the accompanying letterpress. This superb work is a fitting culmination of the services to science which the Nicholas Observatory has rendered up to the present time. THE UNITED STA'rES.-Etats-Unis. Natural scale, I :Io,ooo,ooo, or 157.8 statute miles to an inch. No. 72 in Atlas Universel de Geographie, by Vivien de Saint-Martin and Fr. Schrader. Hachette & Co., Paris, I904. This excellent general map on a small scale is to precede, in this atlas, the foursheet map of the United States on double the scale. Considering the small scale, the compiler and engraver have succeeded in presenting a large amount of topographic detail, much of it taken from the sheets of the Geological Survey, with sharp definition and not much masking of the nomenclature. It might have been well, while producing the orographic features with good effect, to indicate the two regions in this country that lie below the sea-level. Pierre is not indicated as the capital of South Dakota. The railroad is not shown as completed: in Cuba between Havana and Santiago. Such slight blemishes as these may easily be corrected in the next edition.