Harvard Instructor Writes Text Book on Cartography

America's first textbook on cartography, written by Erwin Raisz, instructor in Cartography at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, went on public sale last week as it came off the presses of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City.

All subject matter is presented in a form expressly designed to meet the needs of the college students of geography. Simplicity is the keynote of the book; mathematics is used as seldom as it was possible for the author, whereas elaborate illustrations are in abundance.

Born in Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest, Raisz received his doctor's degree at Columbia and has been associated with the Department of Geography for a number of years. His maps and illustrations in the University's various publications have made him well known around Cambridge.

His new book, entitled "General Cartography," is 370 pages long and contains special maps, original diagrams, and a 64-page history of map-making.