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PROF. SALISBURY contrives to maintain the somewhat colourless subject of modern physiography as a study for the class-room by representing it as a description of the shaping of the present surface of the earth, and of the relations of air and water to the land. Questions of earth-history are left to geology, and of life on the globe to geography. His book might serve as an introduction to either of these sciences. Huxley's “Physiography” made a far wider appeal, and Prof. Salisbury has recently stated his own appreciation of geography as encouraging personal observation and verification.
Physiography.
By Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury. Third edition, revised. (American Science Series, Advanced Course.) Pp. xv + 676 + xxvi plates. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919.)
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C., G. Physiography . Nature 106, 340 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106340d0
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