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Ice-Work Present and Past

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THIS latest addition to the familiar red volumes of the International Scientific Series is in many respects a model of what we may take to be the aim of the whole series. An exposition of the results of modern research and modern thought, which shall be of an unrestricted and international character, written without offence to prejudices or persons, is no mean task for an author to set before himself. And when the subject approaches the chilling atmosphere of the ice-age, we know how frequently the scientific soul waxes warm, and fortifies itself towards the inevitable conflict; while the outer world exclaims,

Ice-Work Present and Past.

By T. G. Bonney, &c. Pp. xiv + 296. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Limited, 1896.)

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COLE, G. Ice-Work Present and Past. Nature 53, 433–435 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053433a0

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