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CENTRAL AMERICA and the West Indies are attracting so much attention at present that a comprehensive description of them is of especial value to all who are watching the growth of political power in the New World. Hence we may welcome Mr. Keane's work, which, inter alia, treats of their history, physical geography, climate, flora, fauna, ethnology and industries, as well as of their financial and commercial statistics. The volume, although purporting to be a “new issue,” might well claim to have no relation to the old one, edited, a quarter of a century ago, by the well-known naturalist H. W. Bates; for the knowledge of the region which has accumulated during the interval has been largely utilised, although not brought up to date in some important respects. Besides ten carefully executed maps, not overloaded and confused by unimportant names, the work contains numerous illustrations.
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CHURCH, G. Central and South America. 1 . Nature 65, 512–514 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065512f0
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