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It is pleasant to think that the State of Bavaria was not dismembered by the great European peace, and we regret that Dr. Francé's scientific guide-book could not extend a little northward, so as to include the palseon-tological treasures of Eichstatt and the cauldronsubsidence of the Ries. But the finest landscapes of the country await the traveller across the southern glacial plain. There is much, indeed, to detain him on the “Niederterrassenschotter” itself. Dr. Francé calls attention, for example, to the forest of Ebersberg, within easy reach for any botanist who visits Munich. Here the climatic change in modern Germany may be traced in the decay of the giant oaks in the eighteenth century, in the subsequent dwindling of the beeches, and in the present predominance of conifers, under which wild tulips grow. The site of Munich raises the puzzle of its apparent extinction in Roman times, though Roman roads run through it, based on predecessors built by Celtic engineers. The rapid rivers are themselves worth watching, as they stream from the Alps across the glacial deltas of the plainland. With this book as a companion, the naturalist will finally cross the old lake-floor to Partenkirchen, and will stand under the crags of the Wetterstein well content.
Süd-Bayern.
R. H.
Francé
Von. (Junk's Natur-Führer.) Pp. v + 423. (Berlin: W. Junk, 1922.) M. 32 and 150 per cent “Valutazuschlag.”
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C., G. Süd-Bayern . Nature 110, 246 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110246b0
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