Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... give more than the shortest abstract . - E . S. H. ] I. Introduction : Observations of LANGLEY on Atmospheric Absorption . " A great deal has been written on the influence of the absorption of the atmosphere upon the climate . TYNDALL ...
... give more than the shortest abstract . - E . S. H. ] I. Introduction : Observations of LANGLEY on Atmospheric Absorption . " A great deal has been written on the influence of the absorption of the atmosphere upon the climate . TYNDALL ...
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... give a layer of about one millim . thickness over the Earth's surface . The quantity of carbon that is fixed in the living organic world can certainly not be estimated with the same degree of exactness ; but it is evident that the ...
... give a layer of about one millim . thickness over the Earth's surface . The quantity of carbon that is fixed in the living organic world can certainly not be estimated with the same degree of exactness ; but it is evident that the ...
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... gives off carbonic acid as its temperature rises , and absorbs it as it cools . The processes named under ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) are of little significance , so that they may be omitted . So too the processes ( 3 ) and ( 7 ) ; for the ...
... gives off carbonic acid as its temperature rises , and absorbs it as it cools . The processes named under ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) are of little significance , so that they may be omitted . So too the processes ( 3 ) and ( 7 ) ; for the ...
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... give a short résumé . These theories assert that the occurrence of genial or glacial epochs should depend on one or other change in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) The temperature of the Earth's place in space . ( 2 ) The Sun's ...
... give a short résumé . These theories assert that the occurrence of genial or glacial epochs should depend on one or other change in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) The temperature of the Earth's place in space . ( 2 ) The Sun's ...
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... give the desired effect . According to his calculations , " a lower- ing of this transparency would effect a lowering of the temperature on the whole Earth , slight in the equatorial regions , and increasing with the latitude into the ...
... give the desired effect . According to his calculations , " a lower- ing of this transparency would effect a lowering of the temperature on the whole Earth , slight in the equatorial regions , and increasing with the latitude into the ...
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aperture April Arcturian Astronomical Society Atlas atmosphere August Board of Directors bright BRUCE Medal C. D. PERRINE Capellan carbonic acid catalogue comet Comet-Medal Committee Committee-Messrs constellation December Decl Declination degrees eastward diameter dome eclipse EDWARD equatorial F. R. ZIEL feet Greenwich Hamilton Harvard College Observatory HOLDEN inches instruments interstellar medium January July June Jupiter latitude LEWIS SWIFT Library Lick Observatory longitude magnitude March Mars meeting Mercury meridian Messrs meteor minutes Miss O'HALLORAN MOLERA month Moon morning star motion Mount Hamilton moves nebulæ Neptune November Oakland observations October Pacific penumbra photographic planets plates President prisms Prof Professor proper-motion Publications quantity of carbonic R. G. AITKEN San Francisco Saturn SCHAEBERLE Secretary seen Sept September Shadow touching Sirian solar spectra spectroscope sun-spot telescope tion Transit umbra University Observatory Uranus Venus W. H. S. MONCK WILLIAM ALVORD Yerkes Observatory Yerkes telescope ΙΟ