Abstract
THE first volume of Prof. Forel's work on the Lake of Geneva appeared in 1892, and was reviewed in these pages (vol. xlvii. p. 5). It dealt chiefly with the physical history of the lake-basin, while the present one, containing parts 6–10 of the whole work, begins with “Hydraulics,” or the currents, waves, seiches, and other deviations of the surface from the normal form of a fluid at rest. It passes on to thermal questions, such as the temperature at different depths, freezing of the surface, &c.; next to optical questions, such as the colour, occasional iridescence and other peculiarities of the water, and the phenomenon of the Fata Morgana; then to acoustics (briefly); and lastly, to the chemistry of the water.
Le Léman Monographic Limmologique.
By F. A. Forel. Tome second. (Lausanne: F. Rouge, 1895.)
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BONNEY, T. Le Léman Monographic Limmologique. Nature 52, 52–53 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052052a0
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