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LIVERPOOL is distinguished amongst British universities by the possession of a chair of oceanography from which Prof. Johnstone speaks as an exponent of the science. The subject naturally appeals most strongly to a seafaring people in those practical aspects which affect navigation, cable-laying, fisheries and the like; but Prof. Johnstone very wisely takes a wider view in opening out vistas of geological evolution and historical discovery. These considerations, rightly balanced, should serve to place the subject on a wide academic basis. The exact purpose of the book before us is not stated, but the seven chapters read like a series of semi-popular lectures each so far complete in itself as to involve a certain amount of repetition, not unhelpful to students though detracting in some degree from the close-knit unity which one looks for in a scientific treatise.
A Study of the Oceans.
By Prof. James Johnstone. Pp. viii + 215. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1926.) 10s. 6d. net.
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MILL, H. A Study of the Oceans . Nature 118, 78–79 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118078a0
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