Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page viii
... vegetation , and animal life . The conditions and causes of the equatorial climate are discussed in some detail , and the somewhat complex principles on which it depends are popularly explained . In the chapters on plant and animal life ...
... vegetation , and animal life . The conditions and causes of the equatorial climate are discussed in some detail , and the somewhat complex principles on which it depends are popularly explained . In the chapters on plant and animal life ...
Page xi
... Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equatorial Zone - The Aspect of the Equatorial Heavens -Intensity of Meteorological Phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . · pages 1-26 II . EQUATORIAL VEGETATION . The Equatorial ...
... Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equatorial Zone - The Aspect of the Equatorial Heavens -Intensity of Meteorological Phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . · pages 1-26 II . EQUATORIAL VEGETATION . The Equatorial ...
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... Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equa- torial Zone - The aspect of the Equatorial Heavens - Intensity of meteor- ological phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . IT is difficult for an inhabitant of our temperate ...
... Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equa- torial Zone - The aspect of the Equatorial Heavens - Intensity of meteor- ological phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . IT is difficult for an inhabitant of our temperate ...
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... vegetation and especially by forests , and also by the presence of hills and moun- tains , and is therefore greater on land than on the ocean ; while evaporation is much greater on the ocean , both on account of the less amount of ...
... vegetation and especially by forests , and also by the presence of hills and moun- tains , and is therefore greater on land than on the ocean ; while evaporation is much greater on the ocean , both on account of the less amount of ...
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... vegetation.1 Again , the lowering of the temperature at night is so regular and yet so strictly limited in amount , that , although never cold enough to be unpleasant , the nights are never so oppressively hot as to prevent sleep ...
... vegetation.1 Again , the lowering of the temperature at night is so regular and yet so strictly limited in amount , that , although never cold enough to be unpleasant , the nights are never so oppressively hot as to prevent sleep ...
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