================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> 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 ___________________________ Ken Grabach Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726 Miami University Libraries Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA