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(1) THE purpose of the first of these books would have been made clearer if it had been entitled “Manual of Exercises in Physical Geography,” for the 273 pages of which the body of the book is composed are almost entirely made up of questions and directions to students. The manual is divided into eighteen chapters, the first on the earth as a planet, the next four on climate and others on common minerals and rocks, on the contour map, on weathering streams and stream valleys (a long chapter, in which prominence is given to the cycle of erosion and all that that involves), on land forms (three chapters), on glaciation, lakes, the ocean, shore lines and forms, harbours, and soils, the final chapter being devoted to studies of typical areas.
(1) Manual of Physical Geography.
By Dr. F. V. Emerson. Pp. xvii + 291. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 6s. net.
(2) A Laboratory Manual of Physical Geography.
By Prof. R. S. Tarr O. D. von Engeln. Pp. xvii + 362. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 6s.
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C., G. (1) Manual of Physical Geography (2) A Laboratory Manual of Physical Geography. Nature 84, 201 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084201a0
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