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1. On the Thermal Influence of Forests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The opportunity of an experiment on a comparatively large scale, and under conditions of comparative isolation, can occur but rarely in such a science as Meteorology. Hence Mr Milne Home's proposal for the plantation of Malta seemed to offer an exceptional opportunity for progress. Many of the conditions are favourable to the simplicity of the result; and it seemed natural that, if a searching and systematic series of observations were to be immediately set afoot, and continued during the course of the plantation and the growth of the wood, some light would be thrown on the still doubtful question of the climatic influence of forests.

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Proceedings 1872-73
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1875

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References

page 115 note * Journal Scot. Met. Soc., New Series, No. xxvi., p. 35.

page 115 note † Quoted by Mr Milne Home.

page 117 note * Atlas Meteorologique de l'Observatoire Imperial, 1867.

page 118 note * Comptes Rendus de l'Academie, 29th March 1869.

page 119 note * Prof. Balfour's Class-Book of Botany, Physiology, chap. xii. page 670.

page 120 note * Comptes Rendus, 1867 and 1869.

page 120 note † See his paper.

page 120 note ‡ Annales de Chimie et de Physique, xlv., 1830. A more detailed comparison of the climates in question would be a most interesting and important contribution to the subject.

page 120 note § Reviewed in the Austrian Meteorological Magazine, vol. iv. p. 543.

page 121 note * Comptes Rendus, 28th May 1860.

page 122 note * Comptes Rendus, 20th May 1861.

page 123 note * Becquerel, ‘Climats,” p. 141.

page 125 note * Scoresby-Jackson's “Medical Climatology.”