Discussions on climate and cosmology / by James Croll.

  • James Croll
Date:
1885
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    Physical theory, why so named, 92 J, recognises geo- raphical con- itions, 93 points of agree- ment, 95-97 Pisidiwn fontinale, 184 Planets, elements of, 308 Planorhis albis, 183 Polar regions, mild climates ex- ceptional in, 171 Poisson, M., on cause of geological climate, 2 Prevost's theory of exchanges, 31 Prince Patrick's Island, wood found at, 193 Provence, tufa of, 188 Pouillet, M., on temperature of space, 259 Pouillet and Herschel on tempera- ture of space, 144 Poles, heat received to that at the Equator, 143 Polar regions, glaciation, normal condition, 171 RADIATION of a particle, 22 of heat through plates. Professor Balfour Stewart on, 261 ,, efifect of, on sur- face of ice-sheets, 217 Rae, Dr., on mammoth in Siberia, 191 Raised beach with moraine matter on, 116 Ramsay, Prof, A. C, on great faults in North Wales, 268 Reaction of the physical agents, 54, 120 Reade, Mr. Mellard, cited, 279 Regelation, three theories of, 249 theory of, from ' Cli- mate and Time,' 251 Rejoinder, Prof. Newcomb's, 31, 32, 34 Rhinoceros tichorhinus, 180 Rink, Dr., on Greenland ice, 64 on rainfall and snow- fall in Greenland, 237 Rink, Dr., cited, 48 Rock-basins, how excavated by land ice, 254 Rogers, Prof. H. D., on fault in the Appalachians, 270 Ross, Sir John, on snowfall of Antarctic regions, 79 ,, on absence of water on Artarctic ice- sheet, 218 Ruprecht, Herr von, on Siberia, 182 Russia, mammoth remains found in, 186 SANDWICH Land under glacia- tion, 113 Sannikow on former climate of Siberia, 182 Saporta, M., on tufa, 188, 189 Schmidt on deposits on the Tundra, 182 Scoresby, Capt., on Greenland, 69 ,, on coldness of Greenland air, 84 Scotland, inter-glacial beds of, 130 Sea, temperature higher than that of land, 26 ,, mean temparature, why it is high? 26-31 Sea-level, oscillations of, 139, 140 Secular cooling of the earth. Sir W. Thomson on, 295 Shaler, Prof., theory of Antarctic ice, 76 ,, on Antarctic ice, 111 Shells in Tufa, 190 Siberia, why snow is not per- petual, 88 ,, mammoth in, 178 ,, inter-glacial period of, 190 ,, North warmer during mammoth epoch, 180 ,, wood found in, 181 Siemens, Dr., theory of the sun, 298 Sifting of rays, 44 Skeletons of mammoth in Europe, 186