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Abstract

THIS book was originally published about twenty-five years ago, and has done good service in many schools and colleges. After the author's death it was brought up to date by Dr. Charles Lapworth, who, besides making a number of minor corrections and additions, contributed a summary of those results of the Challenger Expedition which had reference to the depths, deposits, and temperature of the ocean; an account of British storms; a description of the biological regions of the earth; and a short sketch of Prof. Huxley's arrangement of the human family. In the present edition Dr. Lapworth has again sought to bring the work abreast of scientific, knowledge, introducing new matter relating to geology and petrography, meteorology and climatology, and the distribution of animals and plants. On the latter subject he has obtained from Prof. D'Arcy Thompson an excellent summary of recent biological research and theory. The value of the book has also been increased by the insertion of several new maps illustrative of the astronomical and meteorological sections.

Introductory Text-book of Physical Geography.

By the late David Page Twelfth Edition. (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1887.)