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THE handbook for this year's meeting of the British Association is a modest volume compared with that issued on the occasion of the last meeting at Glasgow twenty-seven years ago. It consists of a series of essays by various authors on different aspects of the city, among which education has considerable space. The chapters on the city and on the harbour have particular value in tracing the growth of Glasgow and its activities. There are essays on the geology, fauna, and flora, but no attempt is made to deal exhaustively with these subjects. The absence of the floristic and faunistic lists, which used to be a feature of British Association handbooks in the past, is welcome, but an introductory chapter from the geographical point of view might well have been added. Topographical and geological maps are given in a separate cover. These are on a scale of one inch to a mile.
Glasgow: Sketches by Various Authors.
J. Graham
Kerr
Edited by. General Handbook of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Glasgow Meeting, 1928. Pp. x + 357 + 12 plates. (Glasgow: Local Committee of the British Association, 1928.)
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Glasgow: Sketches by Various Authors . Nature 122, 397 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122397c0
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