RECLUS, Elisée. "On Spherical Maps and Reliefs"

Geographical Journal, vol. 22 (Sept. 1903), No. 3, p. 290-299.

"In April 1903, Elisée Reclus came to give one of his two lectures to the Society. The paper was on the need to use various types of spherical and relief maps in teaching. Mackinder and Kropotkin took part in the discussion. They both suggested that Reclus was being unnecessarily purist in insisting on relief models that used no exaggeration of the vertical scale and Mackinder underlined the need for public authorities to spend more on maps and models for geographical education. Mindful, perhaps of Mackinder’s imperialist politics, Kropotkin referred directly to defence spending, noting that ’[w]hen so much money was spent on useless things such as ironclads and the like, surely they ought to be able to find money for what was absolutely essential in carrying on the work of education" Gerry KEARNS, "The political pivot of geography", The Geographical Journal Volume 170 (December 2004) Page 337-346.