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DR. SIEGMUND GÜNTHER is already known by his “Lehrbuch der Geophysik,” in two volumes, which appeared in 1884 and 1885, and runs up to nearly 1200 pages. The title of the present work is ambitious, and the endeavour to produce a text-book of the whole of meteorology in the space of 300 pages is a bold one. The work is a digest of existing text-books, such as Van Bebber's “Handbuch der ausübenden Witterungskunde,” and Sprung's “Lehrbuch der Meteorologie.” It is therefore excessively condensed, and to such an extent that it can only be used as a sort of index, for on all the subjects discussed, the reader is referred to other sources of information. The conception of the treatise is good enough, and the subdivisions are: (1) the general properties of the atmosphere, and observations thereon; (2) the movements of the atmosphere; (3) general climatology; and (4) the special climatology of the different zones. These are followed by two appendixes which might well have formed separate chapters; their subjects are, respectively, practical weather knowledge, and optical meteorology.
Die Meteorologie, ihrem neuesten Standpunkte gemäss, und mit besonderer Berücksichtigung geographischer Fragen dargestellt.
Von Dr. Siegmund Günther. With 71 Illustrations. 304 pp. (Munich: Ackermann.)
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Our Book Shelf. Nature 40, 173 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040173a0
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