Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page ix
... less direct connection with the leading subject . The family of humming - birds is taken as an illustration of the luxuriant development of allied forms in the tropics , and as showing the special mode in which natural selection has ...
... less direct connection with the leading subject . The family of humming - birds is taken as an illustration of the luxuriant development of allied forms in the tropics , and as showing the special mode in which natural selection has ...
Page 4
... less extreme than many continental localities . Observations made at Para , which is continental and close to the equator , agree how- ever very closely with those at Batavia ; but at the latter place all the observations were made with ...
... less extreme than many continental localities . Observations made at Para , which is continental and close to the equator , agree how- ever very closely with those at Batavia ; but at the latter place all the observations were made with ...
Page 8
... less than from thirty to forty feet , and with us it is probably fifty or sixty feet , and the temperature found there is nearly forty degrees lower than at the equator . This great body of cool earth absorbs a large portion of the ...
... less than from thirty to forty feet , and with us it is probably fifty or sixty feet , and the temperature found there is nearly forty degrees lower than at the equator . This great body of cool earth absorbs a large portion of the ...
Page 13
... supplied by the above - mentioned pipes the result will be , that in the one which loses by leakage less than it receives the water will rise day by day , till the increased pressure caused the leakage to SUPPLY AND WASTE OF HEAT . 13.
... supplied by the above - mentioned pipes the result will be , that in the one which loses by leakage less than it receives the water will rise day by day , till the increased pressure caused the leakage to SUPPLY AND WASTE OF HEAT . 13.
Page 16
... less amount of cloudy weather and because the air is more constantly in motion . This is particularly the case throughout that large portion of the tropical and subtropical zones where the trade 16 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
... less amount of cloudy weather and because the air is more constantly in motion . This is particularly the case throughout that large portion of the tropical and subtropical zones where the trade 16 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
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