The Origin of the Seasons Considered From a Geological Point of View
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European annuals grown in southern regions become perennial, and deciduous trees evergreen, 374. A brief description of a cycle of the seasons in Victoria, Australia, 375. Spring grasses parched, yet the pasturage nourishing, 376. Summer siroccos, 377. Autumn a second spring, 378. Winter stormy and rainy, 379. Droughts of long continuance, 380. The seasons in New Zealand favour- able for agriculture, 381. Fertility of crops attributed to the large supply of carbonic acid gas in the air, 382. Di...fference in volume of constituents evidence that the particles of the air do not universally intermingle, 383. Maury's account of the "brave west winds" in the south hemisphere, 384. Botanical evidence in favour of our theory conclusive as to the dis- parity in the volume of carbonic acid gas in the north and south aerial hemispheres, 385. 365. Causes that produce deciduous Vegetation in the North Hemisphere. With regard to the causes that pro- duce the phenomena of deciduous vegetation, there is no doubt that a low degree of heat in the atmosphere forms an important auxiliary ; but it is not the chief cause in producing the fall of the leaf, as popularly understood.
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