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THERE is a large though scattered body of people interested in oceanography or fascinated by marine biology, but prevented from making any advance by the want of practical direction and assistance: not only explorers and yachtsmen, but officers in the Navy with time on their hands in port or in foreign stations, medical officers on board ship or on coastal stations, and gentlemen who have retired from active service. To all such who wish to learn the methods of oceanographic inquiry, this book will be gladly welcomed, for it brings together instructions that otherwise are hard to find, given with the greatest care, and tested by the practical experience of many lives. The handbook is, in fact, the collective wisdom of the most active members of the Challenger Society, a body that has met quarterly in an unobtrusive fashion in London for some years, and now expresses its interest in oceanographic research by this publication.
Science of the Sea.
Dr. G. Herbert Fowler. Pp. xviii + 452. (London: John Murray, 1912.) Price 6s. net.
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G., F. Science of the Sea . Nature 90, 34 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090034a0
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