Abstract
THE seventeenth report of the Commission Internationale des Glaciers makes its appearance for the year 1911, in conformity with the decision at the Stockholm meeting, without waiting for laggard documents. We learn from it that on the Swiss Alps the majority of the glaciers are still decreasing, probably in consequence of the hot summer of 1911, only three showing signs of an advance, the reason of which remains to be discovered. In the Eastern Alps the observations include eight groups out of twelve, and these show that the fairly general advance of 1910 has not been maintained. In the Italian Alps the retreat, except in a few cases, has been general, as in the previous years, that of the southern ”nd of the Brenva Glacier (Mt. Blanc) having beeh sixty metres.
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B., T. Movements of Glaciers 1 . Nature 90, 490 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090490a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090490a0