A New Reference

In 1949, the G. & C. Merriam Company, then publishing the Second Edition of Webster\u27s New International Dictionary of the English Language, issued a new publication, Webster\u27s Geographical Dictionary. It was, on the surface, both a companion volume to Webster\u27s Biographical Dictionary, first published in 1943, and an expansion of the Gazetteer in the unabridged dictionary, a section that then embraced only 30,000 names, compared with about 40,000 in the new and independent reference work