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Tropical nature, and other essays (1878)

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913, Stopford, Frederick William, former owner. DSI, Bayer, Frederick M., former owner. DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 36

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aredwith the variable temperatures of the extra-tropicalzones, is the large amount of heat liberated during thecondensation of the aqueous vapour of the atmospherein the form of rain and dew. Owing to the frequentnear approach of the equatorial atmosphere to the KAINFALL AT LONDON AND BATAVIA. 15… … condensation of a large absolute quantity of atmosphericvapour, so that copious dews and heavy showers of rainare produced at comparatively high temperatures and 16 TROPICAL NATUKE, AND OTHER ESSAYS. low altitudes. The drops of rain rapidly increase insize while falling through the saturated…

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