Abstract
THE author of this closely written treatise reminds us that it is nineteen years since Heim issued his classical “Handbuch der Gletscherkunde,” and that the numerous additions to our knowledge since 1885 may well be brought together in a convenient form. Dr. Hess has an intimate personal knowledge of European glaciers, on which he has made patient and numerical observations; and in the difficult matter of the theory of glacier-motion he has had the cooperation of Prof. Finsterwalder, of Munich. The work of Finsterwalder, indeed, is in many ways an inspiration throughout the book, but the references to Chamberlin, Brückner, Drygalski, Penck, Reid, and many others show what an immense amount of material has been added to our knowledge in very recent years.
Die Gletscher.
By Dr. Hans Hess, königl. gymnasial-Professor in Ansbach. Pp. xii + 426. (Brunswick: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1904.) Price 15 marks.
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COLE, G. Die Gletscher . Nature 70, 477–478 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070477a0
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