2017 and 2018 supplements

[James B Throckmorton]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what months had supplements in 2017 and 2018. I moved and my suscription did not make it to my house so i am having to piece them together.

Thanks

[George Thomas Wilson]

James,

There was only one loose supplement in the years you listed.  The March 2018 issue contained a two-sided map entitled "How Birds Migrate".

Tom Wilson

[James B Throckmorton]

Thanks. Do you happen to know about 2017?

[George Thomas Wilson]

No loose supplements in 2017.  The last one prior to March 2018 was December 2016.

[James B Throckmorton]

Thanks so much. I misunderstood the first response. I appreciate the info.

[Pece Kocovski]

Hi Tom,

My brother is a subscriber to National Geographic and strangely didn't receive a map supplement to the 2018 March issue (the spine and magazine does show a bird migration story) but we didn't see a map anywhere. I wonder if the maps were US only, because a similar thing happened to the December 2016 issue (FAITH cover) where we got no map but people overseas seem to have received a map.

Question, is there any mention on the issue anywhere in the magazine that a map is included? I don't see anything in both the March issue of 2018 and the December issue of 2016 of the copies we have.

[George Thomas Wilson]

Hi Pece,

Back in the day, you could tell if there was a supplement by the red lettering on the spine.  Not anymore.  Now, all of the main articles get red lettering even without a supplement.  The Society might have a problem with quality control in regards to inserting maps.  I know one of the more recent maps was missing in Phil's issue.  He wrote to Cathy Hunter and she mailed him a copy of the map.  You could try that.

Tom

[Pece Kocovski]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for that. I will give it a shot, because my brother reads the issues as the magazines come in and he feels incomplete not having read and admired the two maps!