An Outline of the History of the Pacific Northwest with Special References to Washington

"The volume here presented is the outgrowth of a course in Northwest History which has been conducted for several years at the State Normal School, Cheney, Washington. It is similar in spirit and purpose to the Northwestern History Syllabus contributed to this Quarterly... and the List of References on the History of the West... The present Outline goes into greater detail of topics and bibliography for the state of Washington than either of the two previous publications and has the advantage of being more recent.

Ernestine Carreira & Idelette Muzart-Fonseca dos Santos, Éclats d’empire, du Brésil à Macao

The attentive reader can find gems here, but is obliged to hunt through much dross to do so. The chapters vary enormously in analytical breadth and empirical novelty, and do not come together as a coherent whole. Indeed, 'fragments' is a good title for an uneven collection, to which the editors' introduction and conclusion adds little or nothing. There are four practical and useful guides to archives (Aix, Nantes, Lisbon, and Macao), but they break the analytical flow, and should have been pl..

Seismic and gravity investigations on the Malaspina Glacier, Alaska

Seismic reflections obtained from bedrock beneath the Malaspina Glacier along a ten‐mile profile line indicate ice thicknesses ranging from 1130 to 2050 ft. The base of the ice is 700 ft below sea level near the center of the profile and shallows both northward toward the mountains and southward toward the ice margin. Good reflections were obtained with dynamite charges of about one ounce in 26‐ft water‐filled shot holes but only in relatively crevasse‐free areas. Deeper reflections substantiate the inferred sedimentary nature of the subglacial rocks and show geologic structures consistent with the regional pattern. Gravity measurements along the central three miles of the seismic profile line indicate a gentle northwest‐southeast trending subglacial topographic grain. Seismic refraction shots beyond the present margin of the glacier suggest a thickness of unconsolidated proglacial deposits in excess of 500 ft