Chapter Ii Gives a Brief Account of the Climatic Record As a Whole,

and Chapter III deals with the Tertiary period considered as leading up to the Quaternary Ice Age. Chapter IV discusses the subdivisions of the Glacial period, and the conflict between advocates of one and of repeated glaciations. Chapters V to XII give brief accounts, from the standpoint of a meteorologist, of the glacial history of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean Region, Asia, North and South America, Africa, Australia, and the South Polar regions. In Chapters XIII to XV post-Glacial climatology is considered. Chapters XVI and XVII deal with the major climatic fluctuations of the “historic” period, and finally, in Chapters XVIII and XIX, is a short discussion of the influence of climate on the evolution and history of man. A brief bibliography concludes each chapter.

THE EVOLUTION OF CLIMATE