Abstract
IT was to be expected that with so carefully-selected and intelligent a staff, both naval and civilian, on board, the cruise of the Challenger would be productive of something more than the official literature. It will have been seen from the “Preamble” which we recently published (antea, p. 254) that it must necessarily take a long time to arrange the abundant scientific results that have been obtained, and the complete official accounts may not be in the hands of the public for years. The Report on the Austrian Novara Expedition has taken seventeen years' serious labour to complete; but we hope to be in possession of the Challenger Reports in a much less space of time. Meantime many readers will be glad to have in a handy form a general account of the work which the expedition has done, and some details concerning the incidents of the long cruise and the many places which the ship visited. From either of the books before us such information may be obtained.
Log Letters front the “Challenger”
By Lord George Campbell. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876.)
The Cruise of her Majesty's Ship “Challenger.”
By W. J. J. Spry. With Map and Illustrations. (London: Sampson Low and Co., 1876.)
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Log Letters front the “Challenger” The Cruise of her Majesty's Ship “Challenger” . Nature 15, 290–291 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015290a0
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