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(1) THIRTY-ONE authors, most with personal experience of the polar regions and each an expert in some branch of research, have contributed to the first of these volumes. The result is a collection of papers of the highest value, which reflects great credit on the enterprise of the American Geographical Society. There must obviously be a certain overlap among several of the papers, just as certain topics are overlooked, but this does not detract from the value of the collection.
(1) Problems of Polar Research: a Series of Papers by Thirty-one Authors.
(American Geographical Society Special Publication, No. 7.) Pp. v+479. (New York: American Geographical Society, 1928.) 5 dollars.
(2) The Geography of the Polar Regions.
Consisting of A General Characterisation of Polar Nature, by Otto Nordenskjöld; and A Regional Geography of the Arctic and the Antarctic, by Ludwig Mecking. (American Geographical Society Special Publication, No. 8.) Pp. viii+359. (New York: American Geographical Society, 1928.) 4 dollars.
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B., R. (1) Problems of Polar Research: a Series of Papers by Thirty-one Authors (2) The Geography of the Polar Regions. Nature 122, 837–838 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122837a0
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