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THIS is a small text-book adapted to the somewhat remodelled syllabus of the Science and Art Department's elementary stage of physiography. There can be no doubt about the usefulness of the book, but it is to be regretted that more originality is not displayed in the treatment of the subject of matter and energy. Of the rest of the book no complaint can be made: it is excellent. That which deals with matter and energy, however, is meagre and unequal, and the arrangement is at times unnatural. Gravitation, for instance, is discussed without any direct reference to weight, although two pages are devoted to the methods of determining specific gravities. Then, again, one would scarcely expect nowadays to read a chapter on energy without finding some mention of the doctrine of the conservation of energy.
Earth-Knowledge: A Text-book of Elementary Physiography.
By W. J. Harrison H. R. Wakefield. (London: Blackie and Son, 1887.)
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F., A. Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 150 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037150a0
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