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Presentation before the National Geographical Congress at Amsterdam of a new physiographic method of showing landscape on maps and the exhibition before the Anthropological, Ethnographical and Archeological Congress at Copenhagen of the largest map of Liberia ever surveyed are a few of the matters which have occupied Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration, during the past summer...
...Amsterdam Congress was attended by about 900 delegates from all over the world, 50 of them being Americans. Here Raisz, who studied in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated his new mapping process which he developed in conjunction with Suderland of Stockholm. Its main principle is that the map surface is divided into type regions, each represented by a symbol which is pictorial and therefore easily recognized...
...History of Maps" will be discussed in an illustrated lecture by Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration of Harvard, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue, at 4 o'clock...
...Rice, who has had wide experience but is usually in New York and does not have much time to spend on the course. 35a, on Cartoraphy, has the widest appeal, but it is only open to concentrators in Geography and certain other scientific fields. It is well taught by Raisz...
...Irwin Raisz will lecture at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon on the history of maps. This lecture will be held in the auditorium of the Institute of Geographical Exploration and wil be opened to the public free of charge...