12 APRIL 1919, Page 22

The Geographical Journal for April contains two articles of special

interest. Commander Roncagli, of the Italian Navy, describes, with maps, the " Physical and Strategic Geography of the Adriatic." Colonel Winterbotham explains in detail the work of the British. Survey on the Western Front," which had to produce accurate large-scale maps by the million for the Army. In November, 1917, for example, the Field Survey Bat- talion issued 331,686 maps to the troops engaged before Cambrai. Our military map-makers played no small part in the war.