A National Atlas of Britain
- Publication
- Nature
- Volume
- 144
- Issue
- 3657
- Pages
- 929-930
United Kingdom
1970E. G. R. Taylor outlines the national atlas proposal initiated by the British Association’s Geography Section in 1938 and subsequently discussed at Dundee. The plan combined physical, human and historical maps for use by researchers and the wider public. Taylor describes a basic scale of 1:1,000,000 and a common base map, enlarged or reduced as needed, to facilitate comparisons. Existing maps and statistics would supply much of the content, while subjects such as water supply, smoke pollution and soils required further research or data collection. She stresses careful treatment of incomplete evidence and identifies unresolved problems of territorial coverage in Ireland and scientific cooperation. These are proposed arrangements, not a description of the completed 1970 atlas.
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PROPOSALS for a National Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were first put forward from Section E (Geography) of the British Association at the Cambridge meeting in 1938. They met with a warm response from several other sections, with the result that a representative committee got to work and was able to present a preliminary plan for the Atlas in the form of a report to the Association at its Dundee meeting, which has been already noticed in NATURE*. Just before the break-up of the meeting, a joint discussion of the report by interested sections took place, and it is here proposed to outline the ideas concerning the Atlas which emerged during this discussion. As will presently appear, many problems still await solution, but these can fruitfully be examined during the period in which more active steps must wait upon the national emergency.
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