Vegetation Regions over the Earth, 1898
A word map from 1898 showing the Vegetation Regions over the Earth. This map is hatchure-coded to show regions of deserts, tundras, and ice fields, regions of grassy lands, regions of open forests, and regions of dense forests. "Plants and anima...

Life Regions, 1898
A map of Life Regions over the Earth. "The deserts and the mountain ranges that lie between the torrid and north temperate heat belts, together with the sea, are such important barriers to the spread of animal and plant life that they may be tak...

Density of Population, 1898
A map of population density in 1898. The scale is shown as Sparse, Moderately dense and dense. "Although people are found in nearly all parts of the world, very many more live in some parts than in others, A region very thickly peopled is said t...

East-West World Hemispheres, 1899
A double hemisphere map of the earth from 1899 showing the eastern and western hemispheres. This mapping convention of dividing the earth, bound by the 20° W and 160° E meridians, shows the "Old World" and "New World" with...

Land Surface Characteristics and Ocean Currents, 1899
A map of the world from 1899 showing the earth's land surface characteristics and ocean currents. This map is color–coded to show regions of tropical forests, temperate forests, grass and cultivated lands, deserts, tundra and barren lands, and ...

Global Climate, Mean Annual Isotherms, 1899
A world map from 1899 showing the Earth's climate with mean annual isotherms. The map is color–coded to show temperature regions delineated by the isotherms measured in degrees Fahrenheit, from below 32 degrees to over 80 degrees Fahrenheit....

Mean Annual Rainfall with Limits of Snowfall, 1899
A map from 1899 showing the mean annual rainfall throughout the world. This map is color–coded to show areas where the number of inches of rainfall ranges from below 10 inches to above 75 inches. Lines show the southern limits of snowfall in th...

Hot Belt of the Earth, 1899
A world map from 1899 showing the "Hot Belt," or the zone between the mean annual 80° isotherms. "There are many times more land north of the equator than south of it, and this land heats more readily than the ocean heats. From th...

Faunal Regions of the World, 1899
A sketch map from 1899 showing the generalized faunal regions of the world, including the North American, South American, Northern Afeurasian, African, Oriental, and Australian regions....

Places of Origins and Cultivation of Plants, 1899
A world map from 1899 showing the places of agricultural plant origins and places of cultivation. Specific plant origins include corn, redwood, tomato, potato, vanilla, coffee, cotton, grape, apple, wheat, hemp, rye, plum, date, buckwheat, ebony, tea...