-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Need help Identifying Map Fragment Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:31:14 -0600 From: Carol Russell <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> References: <[log in to unmask]> I hate to admit it, but I did a Google search on a phrase from the title (misspelling it a few times, my German is nil) "die verbreitung der lucernarien" and Google brought up the website http://www.archive.org/stream/deutschesdpola10deut/deutschesdpola10deut_djvu .txt which had the title and author, volume etc. of the work, where if you click "full text" you get http://www.archive.org/details/deutschesdpola10deut and you can click "view the book" and get the viewable book with turnable pages at http://www.archive.org/stream/deutschesdpola10deut you can choose a search term, "lucernarien" (sorry I misspelled it earlier) and it takes you to p. 49, which is a list of illustrations, so I paged forward 2 pages, and there it was. Then I looked in OCLC to see if there was a copy of the work at the library with the missing map fragment Ain't the internet great? Carol Russell =========================================================================== ======================== -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maps-L Moderator Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Need help Identifying Map Fragment -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Need help Identifying Map Fragment Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:53:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] > 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. ok Carol, you must tell us what your train of thought was to solve that puzzle. -Jon Jablonski UO Map Librarian. In awe of Carol's prowess.