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PROF. WARD explains in the preface to his book that its aim is “to coordinate and to set forth clearly and systematically the broader facts of climate in such a way that … the general reader, although not trained in ‘the technicalities of the science,’ may find it easy to appreciate them,” while “the needs of the teacher and student have been kept constantly in mind.” An introductory chapter, essentially a synopsis of the first six chapters of vol. i. of Hann's “Klimatologie,” gives an outline of the climatic elements and of solar and physical climate. The classification of climates according- to belts of latitude and the general distribution of land and sea is next dealt with, and to this section is added a brief account of some of the more elaborate subdivisions which have been proposed. Then follow sections on the characteristics of climate in the tropics, the temperate zones, and the polar zones; on the hygiene of the zones, and on the life of man in the zones; and a final chapter on changes of climate.
Climate, considered especially in Relation to Man.
By Prof. Robert de Courcy Ward. Pp. xv+372. (London: John Murray, 1908.) Price 6s. net.
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Climate, considered especially in Relation to Man . Nature 79, 155 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079155a0
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