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LARE BALATON, or Flatten See, is the largest lake in Austro-Hungary, and, in fact, in southeastern, Europe. It is fifty miles long, and, is shallow in proportion to its size. It lies in a depression on the Hungarian plain at the foot of the hills of the Bakony Wald. The Hungarian Geographical Society organised a commission, under the presidency of Prof. Ludwig von Loczy, to subject this lake to a thorough investigation. The results are being published in three volumes, of which the first is devoted to geography, geology, palæontology, hydrography, physics, and chemistry; the second to biology; the third to the social and ethnographical geography, including accounts of the watering-places and hot springs, and a bibliography. Four further sections of this work have now been received, and one of them completes the second volume. As the parts are issued, in the order of their completion, it is not easy to form from, these disconnected fragments clear impression of the work as a whole. Thus the only contribution yet issued to the introduction, which is to be a geographical memoir on the lake and its district, is a geo - physical appendix, dealing, with the determination of gravity by R. von Sterneck, with the influence of variations in gravity on. the level of the. lake surface by Baron Lorand Eötvös, and a report on the magnetic observations by Dr. L. Steiner. Dr. von Sterneck's results show that gravity is normal over part of the middle of the lake, while it is above normal along a belt of the hills to the north, and it is below normal in a band still further to the north.
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G., J. Lake Balaton 1 . Nature 84, 299–300 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084299a0
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