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R E V I E W S  ESKIMOKUNSTLER,  GEBNISSE EINER  REISE  IN  ALASKA  (ESKIMO ARTISTS, RESULTS OF A VOYAGE IN ALASKA) By  HANS  HIMMELHEBER,  Kassel:  Erich Roth-Verlag. 1938; 2nd edition, 1953. 9% X 6% inches, 44 plates, 19 text figures, sketch map, endpaper maps. DER GEFRORENE PFAD, MYTHEN, ESKIMO  (THE  FROZEN  PATH, LEGENDS OF THE ESKIMO) MARCHEN UND LEGENDEN DER M Y T H S ,   F A I R Y - T A L E S ,   A N D  By  HANS  HIMMELHEBER.  Kassel:  Erich Roth-Verlag. 1951; 2nd  edition,  no date. 7% X 4% inches, 129 pages, frontispiece. It should be easier  to  obtain  these  two German  publications,  now  that  a  second edition of each is available. Both, ap- parently in a series, “Das Gesicht der Volker”,  deal  with the  Nunivak  Island- Lower  Kuskokwim  area of Alaska.  Both show attractive bookmaking, to appeal to the general reader as well as the specialist.  For  a  review of Eskimokiins- tler  see  Am.  Anthrop. 44:123-4,  1942. For notes on Der gefrorene Pfad see Anthrop. Paps. of the Univ. of Alaska 2:109-11 and 168-70,  1953. MARGARET  LANTIS GEOPHYSICS AND THE IGY Proceedings of the  Symposium  at  the Opening of the  International Geo- physical  Year.  Edited  by H. ODISHAW and S. RUTTENBERG.  Geophysical Monograph No. 2, American Geo- physical  Union of the National  Acad- emy of Sciences  -National  Research Council. Publication No. 590,  1958. 10 X 7 inches; 210 pages, numerous illustrations, maps, graphs, and dia- grams. In this  volume  is  assembled  a  group of thirty papers covering many topics in geophysics. The  papers  were  presented at  a  special  symposium  in June 1957 just before the IGY began. Some projects had  been  initiated  before the  IGY  for- mally  got  under  way,  and as a  result  a few of the  papers  here  presented  contain early  results of the IGY. The value of the volume is increased  by  this  feature and also because many of the papers present  the  general  status of the differ- ent  geophysical  disciplines  at  the  open- ing of the IGY. The  papers  fall  into  three  groups:  up- per atmospheric physics, the lower at- mosphere  and  the  earth,  and  the  polar regions.  In  the first group  there  are  ten papers of a scientific survey type and four  descriptions of instrumentation. These  papers  deal  with  solar-terrestrial relationships,  probing of the ionosphere, whistlers  and  very low frequency  emis- sions, the night  airglow,  and  many  other topics of research  in  upper  atmospheric physics. There are some highly inter- esting papers on the rocket program, the rocket as a research vehicle, and scientific instrumentation of the satel- lites. The  second  group  contains  ten  papers on  the lower  atmosphere  and  the  earth. These are  survey articles,  often  with an outline of the proposed  IGY  work.  Here are found discussions of the heat and water  budget of the  earth,  synoptic  me- teorology, special meteorological stud- ies,  polar  ice  and  snow  studies,  glaciol- ogy,  oceanography,  seismology  and gravity. The last group presents two articles dealing  with the U.S. antarctic  and arctic programs. The  book is of great  general  and  his- torical interest and it belongs on the bookshelf in  front of the long  series of geophysical  publications that will  short- ly  begin  to  appear  as  a  result of the  tre- mendous  undertaking  called  the  Inter- national Geophysical Year. SVENN ORVIG 250 

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