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PROF. ELIOT G. MEARS, professor of geography in Stanford University, set himself a formidable task in compressing into less than two hundred small pages a survey of the current scientific knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and its adjacent lands. There are chapters on the structure of the basin, its islands, on the physical aspects of the waters including drifts and currents, and on every aspect of the climate and particularly the storms. Other chapters deal with navigation, magnetism and tides. All sections are amply illustrated with maps. When such a degree of condensation is demanded, minor slips are unavoidable; but on the whole the little volume is most informative on the scientific side and includes results of much recent work. There are also statistical appendixes and a folding map.
Pacific Ocean Handbook
Eliot G.
Mears
By. Pp. viii + 192. (Stanford University, Calif.: James Ladd Delkin, 1944.) 1 dollar.
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Pacific Ocean Handbook. Nature 154, 446 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154446d0
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