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complete and thorough investiga-
tion of this important part of Da-
nish cultural development.
However, Professor N. E. Nor-
lund, Ph. D., Director of the Geo-
detic Institute of Denmark, has now
undertaken the extremely exacting
work of giving a complete and very
detailed account of the history and
results of Danish cartography. He
has adopted the method within each
region to follow the development
from the earliest cartographic repre-
sentations down to the map-making
of the present. The work treating
the subject, Publikationer fra Geo-
dxtisk Institut I—VII has been
planned in seven magnificent vo-
lumes, the following of which have
already been published:
I. Johannes Mejers Kort over
det Danske Rige. Forste Bind,
Kobenhavn 1942. [J. M.’s
Map of the Danish Kingdom.
Vol. 1].
II. Johannes Mejers Kort over
det Danske Rige. Andet Bind,
Kobenhavn 1942.
III. Johannes Mejers Kort over
det Danske Rige. Tredie Bind.
Kobenhavn 1942.
IV. Danmarks Kortlægning. En
historisk Fremstilling. Forste
Bind. Tiden til Slutningen af
Videnskabernes Selskabs Op-
maaling. Kobenhavn 1942.
[Mapping of Denmark. A
Historical Account. Vol. 1.
The Period to the End of the
Survey of the Royal Danish
Academy of Sciences].
VI. Færoernes Kortlægning. En
historisk Fremstilling. Koben-
havn 1944. [Mapping of the
Faeroe Islands. A Historical
Account].
VII. Islands Kortlægning. En histo-
risk Fremstilling. Kobenhavn
1944. [Mapping of Iceland. A
Historical Account].
The six volumes of this gigantic
work so far published contain no
less than some 700 plates with re-
productions chiefly of old maps. As
regards Denmark proper all early
types of maps down to the conclu-
sion of the survey of the Royal Aca-
demy of Sciences at the beginning of
19th century are included. As for
the Faeroes the whole material is
included down to the present day,
thus also for Iceland. There are in-
troductory texts to vols. I, III, IV,
VI, and VII.
N. E. Norlund has studied prac-
tically all the literature on the early
cartography of Europe in existence,
and he has further searched through
archives to a great extent in Den-
mark and in other countries as well,
and from there has brought to light
a huge material of hitherto un-
published and in part unknown
handmade maps and texts belonging
to them. It may be taken for grant-
ed that practically all accessible
early maps have been considered in
the investigation. This alone is a