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Subject: Re: Need help Identifying Map Fragment
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:13:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Kathy Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks to all of you who chipped in! Several people contacted me with the correct citation. The map is now reunited with the correct volume and on it's way to preservation.
Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Biological/Agricultural Sciences, Shields Library
100 NW Quad Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-5292
530-752-5248
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> Subject: RE: Need help Identifying Map Fragment
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:00:50 -0600
> From: Carol Russell <[log in to unmask]>
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> It's a map from the work Deutsche sudpolar expedition 1901-1903, (OCLC
> 6030213) by Erich von Drygalski, X. Band. Zoologie II.Band, Heft I
> (Berlin, 1908) visible at
> http://www.archive.org/stream/deutschesdpola10deut
>
> Where if you do a search for the word Lucernarian, it takes you to a
> p. 49 that lists the title of the map, and if you page forward 2
> pages, there it is.
>
> Carol Russell
> Tobin Maps Collection, Walter Geology Library
> University of Texas at Austin
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> Subject: Need help Identifying Map Fragment
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:02:49 -0800 (PST)
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> CC: Ruth A. Gustafson <[log in to unmask]>
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> I'm hoping for some assistance from all of you map detectives out
> there. I have part of a map that was found in a re-shelving area (near
> the bio books, not the map collection). It appears to be part of a
> fold-out map that fell out of an older text. I'm trying to figure out
> it's source. You may view an image of the fragment I have at
>
> https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu:8443/access/content/user/00247523/mystery_map001.jpg
>
> The fragment I have is 33 cm high by 19 cm wide. Based on the
> appearance of Franz-Joseph Land, I estimate that it was printed
> between 1873 and 1926, although because it's a German print,
> Franz-Joseph Land may have been used by the cartographer after the
> Soviet Union took it over.
>
> My german is basically non-existent, but it appears to be a map of the
> distribution of fish or jelly fish?
>
> Any ideas on how to figure out what this goes with would be helpful.
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
> Biological/Agricultural Sciences, Shields Library
> 100 NW Quad Ave.
> Davis, CA 95616-5292
> 530-752-5248
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