[24] J. G. Kohl published facsimiles of the American section of the maps (Weimar, 1860).
[25] Facsimiles of the maps of 1507 and 1517 were published by J. Fischer and F. M. von Wieser (Innsbruck, 1903).
[26] See “The Survey in British Africa”: the Annual Report of the Colonial Survey Commission.
[27] A. Germain, Traité des Projections (Paris, 1865).
[28] T. Craig, A Treatise on Projections (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, 1882).
[29] This error is much less than that which may be expected from contraction and expansion of the paper upon which the projection is drawn or printed.
MAPLE, SIR JOHN BLUNDELL, Bart. (1845-1903), English business magnate, was born on the 1st of March 1845. His father, John Maple (d. 1900), had a small furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road, London, and his business began to develop about the time that his son entered it. The practical management soon devolved on the younger Maple, under whom it attained colossal dimensions. The firm became a limited liability company, with a capital of two millions, in 1890, with Mr Maple as chairman. He entered parliament as Conservative member for Dulwich in 1887, was knighted in 1892, and was made a baronet in 1897. He was the owner of a large stud of race-horses, and from 1885 onwards won many important races, appearing at first under the name of “Mr Childwick.” His public benefactions included a hospital and a recreation ground to the city of St Albans, near which his residence, Childwickbury, was situated, and the rebuilding, at a cost of more than £150,000, of University College Hospital, London. He died on the 24th of November 1903. His only surviving daughter married in 1896 Baron von Eckhardstein, of the German Embassy.