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Rügen.Eine Inselstudie.By Dr. Rudolf Credner, Professor in the University of Greifswald.Forschungen zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde, No. 5, Vol. 7.Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1893.

Through the special mention of this interesting monograph, I wish to call the attention of studious American readers to the valuable series of essays, edited by Professor Kirchhoff of Halle, and published under the above title. The earlier numbers contain such papers as Die oberrheinische Tiefebene und ihre Randgebirge, by Lepsius; Der Einfluss der Gebirge auf das Klima von Mitteldeutschland, by Assmann; Gebirgsbau und Oberflächengestaltung der Sächsischen Schweiz, by Hettner; Die Kurische Nehrung und ihre Bewohner, by Bezzenberger; Der Rhein in der Niederlanden, by Blink; Die Ursachen der Oberflächengestaltung des norddeutschen Flachlandes, by Wahnschaffe. The numbers announced to appear shortly are no less attractive: Die Norddeutschen Urstromsysteme, by Berendt; Die Eifel, by Follmann; Der Boden von Schleswig-Holstein, by Haas; Bau und Entstehung des Harzgebirges, by Klockmann; Bau und Entstehung des Erzgebirges, by Sauer. There are many others of biological or ethnological interst, about forty studies having now been published. The price of the separate numbers varies from one to eight marks. Subscribers who now purchase the whole series may have the first five volumes for half price.

These studies were begun in 1882, in consequence of an appeal to German geographers and geologists issued by Professor Richard Lehmann. A central commission was formed, under which various lines of work were prosecuted. The most important of these are: the Forschungen, here referred to; various bibliographic lists, published by local scientific societies, in which everything bearing on home geography is carefully enumerated; and an Anleitungen zur Deutschen Landes- und Volksforschung, prepared by various experts. An impulse towards the scientific study of the Fatherland has thus been given, which is bearing rich fruits. The next century ought to see something of the kind in this country; for there is a phase of geologico-geographical literature that is more appropriately associated with unofficial publica-

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