Abstract
THE new edition of ‘Whitaker’ has undergone some rearrangement and contains several new features, but its familiar appearance and convenient form remain unchanged. Among the new features are fifty-seven short articles dealing with questions of the day so varied as betting, Kent coalfields, polar flights, and war debts; a summary of science and invention, art, music, and the drama during the year, and details of meteorological conditions in June, July, August, and September for half a century. The statistical information about all states of the world is given as usual. The ‘abridged edition’ now takes the place of the ‘popular edition,’ which is discontinued. It contains not a selection but an abridgment of the contents of the larger volume, and is a marvel of value at the price.
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1927: containing an Account of the Astronomical and other Phenomena, and a Vast Amount of Information respecting the Government, Finances, Population, Commerce and General Statistics of the various Nations of the World.
Joseph
Whitaker
By. Complete edition. Pp. 1vi + 896 + lvii–clxxxiii. 6s. net. Abridged edition. Pp. xlviii + 240 + lvii–clxxxv. Paper, 1s. 6d. net. (London: J. Whitaker and Sons, Ltd., 1927.)
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An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1927: containing an Account of the Astronomical and other Phenomena, and a Vast Amount of Information respecting the Government, Finances, Population, Commerce and General Statistics of the various Nations of the World . Nature 119, 80 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119080c0
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