Untersuchungen über die Bildungsverhältnisse der ozeanischen Salzablagerungen insbesondere des Stassfurter Salzlagers

Abstract

VAN'T HOFF'S researches on the formation of oceanic salt deposits were originally published in the Sitzungsberichte of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. As this periodical is unfortunately inaccessible to the vast majority of scientific workers, the need for a re-publication of the whole series of papers (fifty-two in all) has been keenly felt for a considerable time. Although summaries of the work, or portions of it, have been published from time to time in various readily accessible scientific journals, and although van't Hoff himself published a very concise account of his work (“Zur Bildung der ozeanischen Salzablagerungen,” 2 vols., 1905 and 1909, Vieweg und Sohn), those acquainted at first hand with the researches in question have realised that nothing short of a re-publication in extenso of the whole series coujd give that detailed and intimate acquaintance which is necessary for the advance of science. We therefore owe Profs. Cohen and Precht and the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft in Leipzig a deep debt of gratitude for the publication of this splendid volume. Untersuchungen über die Bildungsverhältnisse der ozeanischen Salzablagerungen insbesondere des Stassfurter Salzlagers. J. H. van't Hoff and others. Herausgegeben von Prof. H. Precht und Prof. Ernst Cohen. Pp. xx + 374 + 8 plates. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h., 1912.) Price 16 marks.