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IT is a pity that a volume which deals with so important a field of research should be published in a language that in all probability will render it useless to those who are most interested in the subject. The author, who many years ago sailed as meteorologist with the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, has produced a detailed monograph on the origin, nature, and properties of ice, paying relatively little attention to its climatic and geographical aspects. From a disappointingly brief French summary, we gather that his aim has been to collect the main problems which atmospheric and terrestrial ice present, with special reference to recent researches on the movements of ice and the crystallography of ice. There are detailed tables of contents in French, and with these most readers will have to be content unless they find the copious bibliographies of use. The latter, however, have some notable omissions, which are partly accounted for by the fact that the book was completed in 1916 but not printed until 1923. There are many illustrations of ice structure.
Historja Naturalna Lodu (Histoire naturelle de la glace).
Antoni Boleslaw
Dobrowolski
By. Pp. xvi + 940. (Warszawa: J. Mianowskiego, 1923.) n.p.
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Historja Naturalna Lodu (Histoire naturelle de la glace). Nature 113, 923 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113923d0
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