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LAKE BALATON, the largest lake in the Hun- garian Plain, occupies a basin of internal drainage at the level of feet above the sea, and has an area of some 230 square miles. It is well known from the watering-places and mineral springs upon its shores. In 1891 the Hungarian Geographical Society appointed a commission to undertake a detailed investigation of the lake. The scheme was supported financially by the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and r. Andor von Semsey. The results are being pub- lished in three volumes; the first deals with the geography, geology, hydrography, climate, and the physical and chemical characters of the lake water. The second volume is devoted to biology; the third to the anthropography, ethnography, archæology, bibliography, and the description of the watering-places. There is also an atlas. Several sections of the work and the topographic atlas have been issued. They contain contributions to all three volumes, and illus trate the thorough nature and wide range of the work.
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Lake Balaton 1 . Nature 75, 79–81 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075079b0
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