Four World Maps for Use in Biology and Geophysics

Even nowadays one frequently sees distributional data plotted on world maps on the Mercator projection, the only advantage of which is that loxodromes (rhumb lines) appear as straight lines, but which is grotesquely misleading for comparison of area and distance. Equal-area projections are, however, more and more used, the uncertainty mainly being which of the numerous kinds should be the most suitable one.     

XIth General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics

It is impossible to give any brief balanced account of the discussions at this Assembly, the proceedings of which will, in any case, appear fully in various other publications.
The editors have therefore chosen, from among the meetings they or their colleagues attended, those which seemed to them of particular interest, and reports of these meetings appear below.