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(1) THE present instalment of “The Botany of Iceland,” by Prof. Thoroddsen contains five chapters. The first chapter deals with general topography and geology. The island is a continuous table-land with an average height of 700-1000 metres above sea-level, excepting narrow borders of coastal land, valleys which cut into the table-land on all sides, and a few small areas of level land towards the south and west. More than two-thirds of the entire area is at so great a height above sea-level that almost no vegetation can thrive there. The sandy and stony deserts of the interior plateau, the lava tracts, and the glaciers are not fit dwelling-places for man, and it is almost exclusively, therefore, the coasts and valleys which are inhabited. The volcanic element is the most striking feature in the geology, and is treated at some length.
(1) The Botany of Iceland.
Edited by Dr. L. K. Rosenvinge Dr. E. Warming. Part 1. 2. An Account of the Physical Geography of Iceland, with special reference to the Plant Life. By Prof. Th. Thoroddsen. Pp. 191-343. (Copenhagen: J. Frimodt; London: J. Wheldon and Co., 1914.)
(2) Bergens Museums Skrifter. Ny Raekke.
Bind i., No. 2. Studies on the Vegetation of Cyprus. Based upon Researches during the Spring and Summer, 1905. By Jens Holmboe. Pp. 344. (Bergen: John Griegs, 1914.)
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(1) The Botany of Iceland (2) Bergens Museums Skrifter Ny Raekke. Nature 95, 254 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095254a0
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