Deep-Sea Deposits

Abstract

GEOLOGISTS have had to wait long for this very important work, but now that it lies before them, we believe that the general verdict will be that it was worth while to wait even sixteen years for a monograph so excellent in design and so complete in execution. It must not be forgotten, too, that much of the information contained in this volume has been already given to the scientific world—first in Mr. Murray's Preliminary Report on the subject, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society; and secondly in a series of papers written by him in conjunction with Prof. Renard, and published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. “Challenger” during the Years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S., and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, and now of John Murray., &c., one of the Naturalists of the Expedition. Report on Deep-Sea Deposits, based on the Specimens collected during the Voyage. By John Murray, LL.D., Ph.D., and the Rev. A. F. Renard, LL.D., Ph.D., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Ghent. Pp. xxix. and 496; with 43 Charts, 22 Diagrams, and 29 Lithographic Plates. (London: Published by Order of Her Majesty's Government, 1891.)