书名：Accounts rendered of work done and things seen
责任者： J.Y. Buchanan. | Buchanan, J. Y.
出版时间：1919
出版社：Cambridge University Press,
前言
John Young Buchanan (1844–1925) was a Scottish chemist and oceanographer, he worked extensively on the chemistry of marine environments. Originally published in 1919, this book gathers together a selection of Buchanan's papers on a broad variety of topics, some of them non-scientific. Numerous illustrative figures are also included and the contents listing contains extensive notes on each of the papers. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Buchanan, chemistry, oceanography and the history of science.
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1. Geography. In its physical and economical relations 1
2. A retrospect of oceanography in the twenty years before 1895 28
3. On similarities in the physical geography of the great oceans 87
4. Relation between the temperature of the sea and that of the air above it 113
5. The colour of the sea 124
6. The occurrence of sulphur in marine muds and nodules, and its bearing on their mode of formation 133
7. Note on the manganese nodules found on the bed of the ocean 158
8. Manganese nodules in Loch Fyne 160
9. On the composition of oceanic and littoral nodules 163
10. On a method of determining the specific gravity of soluble salts by displacement in their own mother-liquor and its application in the case of the alkaline halides 197
11. The Mediterranean sea 216
12. On the composition of some deep-sea deposits from the Mediterranean 234
13. On the oxidation of ferrous salts 243
14. The sunsets of autumn, 1883. Observed at sea in the cable-ship Dacia 250
15. Sue la densité et l'alcalinité des eaux de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée 254
16. Monaco a whaling station 259
17. The cruise of the Princesse Alice 261
18. The sperm whale and its food 269
19. The oceanographical museum at Monaco 278
20. Lakes 289
21. On the distribution of temperature in Loch Lomond during the autumn of 1885 312
22. The windings of rivers 341
23. Volcanoes and earthquakes 346
24. On a remarkable effect produced by the momentary relief of great pressure 349
25. Preliminary note on the compressibility of glass 358
26. On the compressibility of solids 371
27. On an apparatus for gas-analysis 390
28. Her Majesty's Ship Sultan 399
29. Air tight subdivisions in ships 405
30. The Northallerton accident, 1894 412
31. The wreck of Santos Dumont No. 6 at Monaco, 14 February, 1902 416
32. The daintiness of the rat 423
33. Fish and drought 426
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