| Medicine - 1841 - 562 pages
...its tranquility as respects both horizontal and vertical currents. Climate, in a word, constitutes the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...to each locality in its relation to organic nature. " To observe," lands of the latter, elevoted from 3000 to 5000 feet, become a groat reservoir of ice... | |
| United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...ihe admixlure of terrestrial emanations dissolved in its moisture. Climate, in a word, constitutes the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...each locality in its relation to organic nature." Considering the vast importance of this subject to human welfare, it is lamentable to contemplate its... | |
| Science - 1845 - 478 pages
...the admixture of terrestrial emanations dissolved in its moisture. Climate, in a word, constitutes the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...to each locality in its relation to organic nature. In the present inquiry, however, our labours will be restricted almost wholly to the mere physical... | |
| Science - 1845 - 454 pages
...the admixture of terrestrial emanations dissolved in its moisture. Climate, in a word, constitutes the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...to each locality in its relation to organic nature. In the present inquiry, however, our labours will be restricted almost wholly to the mere physical... | |
| 1846 - 602 pages
...answer by an analysis of such facts as we can obtain. Climate is well denned by Forry, " to constitute the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...each locality in its relation to organic nature." The circumstances to which especial attention will be paid in this dissertation, are temperature, geological... | |
| Commerce - 1846 - 606 pages
...answer by an analysis of such facts as we can obtain. Climate is well defined by Forry, " to constitute the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances appertaining to each locality in its reía, tion to organic nature." The circumstances to which especial attention will be paid in this... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 722 pages
...and many previous writers make it nearly coincide with ' physical geography :' " Climate constitutes the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...each locality in its relation to organic nature." Forry1» Climate of the United States and its Endémie Influences, New York, 1842, p. 127. progress... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 752 pages
...and many previous writers make it nearly coincide with ' physical geography :' " Climate constitutes the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...each locality in its relation to organic nature." .Forry'» Climate of the United States and its Endemic Influencée, New York, 1842, p. 127. progress... | |
| Medicine - 1859 - 450 pages
...writers make it nearly coincide with " physical geography." " Climate constitutes," says Dr. Forry, " the aggregate of all the external physical circumstances...each locality in its relation to organic nature." (p. 37, note.) Mr. Buckle considers climate, food, and soil, not separately, but under the several... | |
| William Kebbell - Brighton (England) - 1859 - 204 pages
...nearly coextensively with "Physical Geography." Climate constitutes, Tie says, " The aggregate of all external physical circumstances appertaining to each locality in its relation to organic life." In the usual, and more limited sense of the term, which is the meaning attached to it in the... | |
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