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LIEUTENANT WEYPRECHT, the noted leader of the Austrian Arctic Expedition of 1872-74, whose death is a great loss to science, recently published a little text-book embodying the results of his wide experience in Arctic observation of magnetic and auroral phenomena, which will be invaluable in pointing out to future observers the precautions and requirements which only actual experience of Arctic life can suggest, and the arrangements of apparatus and stores, which, once left behind, must be done without; frequently to the loss of opportunities for observation which do not recur. It would however be wearisome to the general reader to enter into details of Arctic work, and no one to whom the matter is of practical moment will omit reading the book itself. Some however of the precautions suggested give so vivid an idea of the difficulties and even the suffering which Arctic observers have to meet in the cause of science, that we cannot forbear a passing mention of them.
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"Praktische Anleitung zur Beobachtung der Polarlichter und der magetischen Erscheinungea in hohen Breiten", von Carl Weyprecht, Schiffseutenant. (Wien, 1881.)
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PROCTER, H. Magnetic and Auroral Observations in High Latitudes . Nature 24, 241 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024241a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/024241a0