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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005
From: "Ken Rockwell" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE:      MAPS-L: Help with map identification


Just checked the 1974 atlas, but its vegetation page is different from
the one you described.  I'll bet yours was an accompanying material to
some document, possibly Environmental Impact-related.  Maybe a Floridian
will recognize it right off.

--Ken Rockwell
  Univ. of Utah

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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005
From: Ken Grabach
Subject: Help with map identification

Hello, colleagues.

In cataloging some maps, I have encountered a map that is copied from a
printed original, and I am trying to identify that printed original,
with limited success.

The source appears to be a thematic atlas of Florida.  The map I have
reads:  "15.  Natural Vegetation".  Its legend includes 16 categories of
vegetation types, starting with 1 -- Northern grassy longleaf pine
forest, and concluding with 16 -- Coastal marshes, strands, and dunes.
It includes a brief text discussing the origins of Florida's unique
vegetation patterns, and below that are four illustrations, probably in
color, showing "Beach Vegetation, Flatwoods, Cypress Swamp, [and]
Grassland".  It is about 35 cm. in height, and appears to be on the
recto of a page, with 15 at the lower right corner.  A bar scale shows
somewhat more than 1 inch to 50 miles; the natural scale indicator shows
ca. 1:3,000,000.  The type faces are of various sans serif fonts.

A note gives the source of the map data:  "Source:  Based on a map by
John H. Davis, Department of Botany, University of Florida".  This map
is General map of natural vegetation of Florida, 1967.  Thus, we have a
date clue for the map copy, after 1967.

A good candidate for the original of the map in hand could be The New
Florida Atlas, by Wood and Fernald, 1974.  This atlas is listed in our
collection, but I cannot track it to ground.  I would very much
appreciate it if someone with this atlas in the collection could see if
it includes a map as described above.  If it does not, that too would be
useful information.

Ken
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Ken Grabach
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA



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