Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page viii
... equatorial zone , where the characteristic phenomena of tropical life are fully manifested . So many of the most remarkable forms of life are now restricted to the tropics , and the relations of these to extinct types which once ...
... equatorial zone , where the characteristic phenomena of tropical life are fully manifested . So many of the most remarkable forms of life are now restricted to the tropics , and the relations of these to extinct types which once ...
Page xi
... Equatorial Climate - Uniformity of the Equatorial Cli- mate in all Parts of the Globe - Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equatorial Zone - The Aspect of the Equatorial Heavens -Intensity of Meteorological ...
... Equatorial Climate - Uniformity of the Equatorial Cli- mate in all Parts of the Globe - Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equatorial Zone - The Aspect of the Equatorial Heavens -Intensity of Meteorological ...
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... equatorial from the temperate climate , and to explain the causes of the difference between them , -causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined . The three great divisions of the earth — the tropical , the ...
... equatorial from the temperate climate , and to explain the causes of the difference between them , -causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined . The three great divisions of the earth — the tropical , the ...
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... Equatorial Climate - Uniformity of the Equatorial Climate in all parts of the globe - Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equa- torial Zone The aspect of the Equatorial Heavens - Intensity of meteor- ological ...
... Equatorial Climate - Uniformity of the Equatorial Climate in all parts of the globe - Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equa- torial Zone The aspect of the Equatorial Heavens - Intensity of meteor- ological ...
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... equatorial from the temperate climate , and to explain the causes of the difference between them , -causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined . The three great divisions of the earth - the tropical , the ...
... equatorial from the temperate climate , and to explain the causes of the difference between them , -causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined . The three great divisions of the earth - the tropical , the ...
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