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What is an index?

Chapter 8: INDEXES OF ATLASES.
By Henry B. Wheatley
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The pamphlet opens with a historical survey of the word index and its shifting meanings, tracing early usages, notable opinions, and illustrative specimens; it then provides practical guidance on making indexes, covering compilation techniques, concise and accurate headings, alphabetical order versus classification, treatment of names and prefixes, cross-references, and frequent errors; examples and critiques are used throughout to show good and bad practice and to argue for organized efforts to improve indexing standards.

INDEXES OF ATLASES.

Adam.—A Geographical Index, being a Supplement to the Summary of Ancient and Modern Geography. By Alexander Adam, LL.D. Edinburgh, 1795. 8vo.

Sigs. A to S 3 in double cols.

Arrowsmith.—Index to the Eton Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography. New and improved edition. London, 1831. Large 8vo. pt. 1, pp. 90, pt. 2, pp. 86.

Cary.—Cary’s English Atlas. An Index ... London. Folio, pp. 40. No title-page.

Hall.—An Alphabetical Index to all the names contained in a new General Atlas of fifty-three Maps. Constructed from new drawings and engraved by Sidney Hall. London (Longmans), 1831. Roy. 8vo. title, pp. 360.

Johnston.—Index Geographicus, being a List alphabetically arranged of the principal places on the Globe, with the countries and subdivisions of the countries in which they are situated and their latitudes and longitudes. Compiled specially with reference to Keith Johnston’s Royal Atlas, but applicable to all modern atlases and maps. Edinburgh (Blackwood), 1864. Roy. 8vo. pp. iv, 676.

Ordnance Survey.—Index to the Ordnance Survey of England, Scotland and Ireland. Folio.

Useful Knowledge Society.—Index to the Maps of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge. 1844.