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in time from the Neolithic period to the Morris brothers. Culturally we find nine sections, including 'Nonconformity', 'Education after 1870', 'The Welsh Language' and 'Place-Names'. Then under the cover of economic matters (partly historical, some of them) we can place, finally, eighteen sections- Fairs, markets and drovers', for instance, 'Agriculture', or 'Tourism'. The breadth of the Atlas, then, is undeniable. There is a Welsh version at the same price. It is no mean achievement to have co-ordinated the diverse contributions of so many authors, and Professor Melville Richards claims our thanks for guiding the editorial board, which was under the chairmanship of Mr. Emrys Hughes. Credit, too, for what may be termed the grass-roots origins of the Atlas in its sponsorship by Anglesey Rural Community Council, with 'generous financial assistance' from the county council. Given the difficulties often experienced by teachers who have to lead their pupils along the by-ways of local studies, it must be a relief to the Anglesey schools that they now have an illustrated text, nicely produced, centred fairly and squarely on their region. What a pity the chance was missed to introduce a more modern touch in some of the maps, both as to the nature of the data and as to the method of representing it in the maps. This might have tempered the rather static, rigid impression the Atlas gives, all the more regrettable in an Atlas that is so historical in its emphasis. For example, the 'Distribution of Population' maps for 1801, 1851, 1901 and 1961, instead of showing the population per 100 acres for each parish, could have shown the percentage changes in population 1801-51, 1851-1901 and 1901-61. Their range of values could then be constructed around the mean value of population change for the whole of Wales. Given, too, the general trend towards urbanisation, one would welcome some showing in its own right of the demography of Beaumaris and the urban districts. Certainly the predictions given on page 126 have been substantiated by the 1971 Census, with a growth in Anglesey's population by 15 per cent since 1961. The maps of 'Electricity' on page 146 are not successful technically in revealing the advent of electric power, while one cannot help feeling that agriculture is not as well served as it should be by the pair of double maps on pages 132 and 134. Some of the trends in farming life discussed in the text could be readily shown along the more ambitious lines of maps included by J. T. Coppock in his Agricultural Atlas of England and Wales, but with the special emphasis necessary for Anglesey. Just how importantly, proportionally speaking, agriculture ranks in Anglesey's life is not easily worked out from the Atlas, neither in terms of employment nor production. We are told (or can piece together) that farming generates 'a total income' of some £ 6 million each year, to set besides the £ 1.5 million 'additional income' derived from tourism. Only ten per cent of the labour force is industrially employed, so the maps should tell us more than they do about the real situation: 'So up to 1968, Anglesey still presented an agricultural face to the world, with most of its employment being in agriculture or dependent on transport' (page 153). Incidentally, what has happened to 'the accompanying table' mentioned on page 151 ?