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Volume 5 - Issue 33-34 - December 1947

Notes and Reviews

Joint Polar Research Committee of the Royal Geographical Society and Scott Polar Research Institute

Canadian Research in Geodesy and Geophysics [From Nature, Vol. 159, No. 4036, 8 March 1947, pp. 344–45.]

The Public Schools Exploring Society

Work of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in Alaska, 1944–46 [From notes in the Annual Report of the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior, 1945, p. 8, and 1946, pp. 12–13.]

College Geophysical Observatory, Alaska [Based on information supplied on 18 January 1947 by Ernest Wolff, Observer-in-Charge, College Geophysical Observatory.]

Visits to the North Pole [Based on a note by D. Karelin, in Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva (Annals of the All-Union Geographical Society), Vol. 78, No. 1, 1946 pp. 123–24.]

Istituto Geografico Polare, Italy

The Arctic Institute, Leningrad

Handbook for Soviet Polar Workers [Review of Spravochnaya Knizhka Polyarnika (The Polar Workers' Reference Book), by S. D. Lappo. Izdatel'stvo Glavsevmorputi (Publishing House of the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route), 1945, 423 pp., maps and ills. 25 Roubles.]

New Canadian Meteorological Stations in the Arctic [The following statement was made in the Canadian House of Commons on 3 March 1947 by the Right Honourable C. D. Howe, Minister of Reconstruction and Supply.]

Record Low Temperature in Yukon Territory [Based on notes in The Times, 1 February 1947, and St John's Evening Telegram, 4 and 24 March 1947.]

Exchanges of Heat and Tolerance to Cold in Men exposed to Outdoor Weather [Review of paper by E. F. Adolph and G. W. Molnar in American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 146, No. 4, July 1946, pp. 507–37.]

Air Services to the Norwegian Arctic [Summarised from an article in The Times, 3 July 1947.]

Ice Atlas of the Northern Hemisphere [Review of H. O. Publ. No. 550. v + 106 pp., maps and bibliography. 24½×24¼ in. Published by the Hydrographic Office, United States Navy, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 1948 $8.00.]

Photographs and Notes on Alaskan Glaciers [Note by François E. Matthes from the Geographical Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 1947, p. 159.]

The Terms “Glacierised” and “Glaciated”

International Whaling Conference, 1946.

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