RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
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grants in 1935. The 1934 Annual Report contained
a description of the study of the American
Geographical Society looking toward the publication
of the Millionth Map of Hispanic America.
Afinalgrant of $40,000 was made by the Foundation
in 1935 to permit the completion of the
project. The plan for the Millionth Map may be
briefly summarized as follows: a project was
begun in 1909 by international agreement for a
world map
of uniform style on the scale of
1:1,000,000. The limited work now under way
is for a map which covers all of the land areas
and contiguous waters of the Western Hemisphere
south of the Mexico-United States boundary,
including the West Indies, The 102 sheets now
nearing completion will form the largest block of
maps ever developed through international
agreement and cooperation. The data made
available through the publication of the Millionth
Map of Hispanic America by the American
Geographical Society have been, and will doubtless
continue to be, of large value in the settling
of boundary disputes and in the creation o£ better
relations between the United States and the
countries of Latin America,
The second project aided in 1935 was Professor
Henry G. Taylor's study of world agricultural
economics at the International Institute of
Agriculture at Rome. The Foundation appro-
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